Wednesday, May 14, 2008

blog post 5

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90LIKGO0&show_article=1

Crazy ants are invading Texas! Now that’s a story. This fairly uncommon ant species known as the crazy ant has been imported by what they think was a cargo ship from Houston. The ants are extremely small, the size of fleas, and they move extremely fast.
The good thing about them is that they eat red fire ants that are notorious in Texas during the summer months. But crazy ants are also known to eat lady bugs, and prey on hatching eggs. They also bite people, but not with a stinger like fire ants.
The odd thing is that these ants are looming towards electrical cords on houses. Scientists don’t know why but they are attracted to them so much that with their numbers, they eventually short electrical wires. What a pain for Texans.

1 comment:

camccune said...

I'm just hoping they don't end up here.