Houston, Texas has apparently been invaded by red hairy “rasberry ants,” named for the exterminator who tried in vain to wipe them out. They’ve also been crawling into sewage pumps, computers, gas meters and other electrical equipment, causing short circuits.
A Fox News clip shows Tom Rasberry himself, who says “you can kill ‘em by the millions and billions, but the problem is you can’t kill all of ‘em because their numbers are too high.”
But today’s prize for over-dramatic reporting goes to the Houston Chronicle:
You won’t be able to hear them.
Don’t even try.
But somewhere out there, maybe as near as your backyard, the crazy Rasberry ants are marching. Hundreds, thousands, millions, billions of them are coming in a near-unstoppable zig-zagging insect army intent on making your home, yard and life a living hill.
Oh come on now.
First spotted in 2002 in Pasadena by Tom Rasberry, the exterminator for whom the rice-grain-sized insects are named, the ants now have spread through much of the greater Houston area. May through September is their peak period — a time when billions of the critters with a reluctance to sting and a habit of chewing up electrical wiring may infest a single acre. Homeowners daily sweep up dust bins of their dead and maimed.
[…] Rasberry said he treated a half-acre plot with insecticide, returning months later to find the area covered thickly with two inches of dead ants. Living insects teemed on the top layer of insect corpses.
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