First, the good news: crazy rasberry ants are smaller than fleas, but they will eat fire ants. I hate fire ants, and I don’t miss them at all.
Now here’s the bad news: these ants also eat plants, and they like to get into electronic equipment, including network cable and hard drives, according to CRN. That’s a recipe for failure.
Pray that paratrenicha species near pubens don’t come to your neighborhood.
See the Associated Press, Texas A&M’s web page and BoingBoing for more information and links.
Updated 16 May 2008: here’s the New York times article about the crazy running ants.
Update 16 June 2008: I added this YouTube video from Houston’s FOX news report.
Photo courtesy of Texas A&M University.
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