“Hairy, Crazy Ants Invade From Texas To Miss.”
[QUOTE=Huffington Post]
NEW ORLEANS – It sounds like a horror movie: Biting ants invade by the millions. A camper’s metal walls bulge from the pressure of ants nesting behind them. A circle of poison stops them for only a day, and then a fresh horde shows up, bringing babies. Stand in the yard, and in seconds ants cover your shoes…
The flea-sized critters are called crazy because each forager scrambles randomly at a speed that your average picnic ant, marching one by one, reaches only in video fast-forward. They’re called hairy because of fuzz that, to the naked eye, makes their abdomens look less glossy than those of their slower, bigger cousins.
And they’re on the move in Florida, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. In Texas, they’ve invaded homes and industrial complexes, urban areas and rural areas. They travel in cargo containers, hay bales, potted plants, motorcycles and moving vans. They overwhelm beehives – one Texas beekeeper was losing 100 a year in 2009. They short out industrial equipment.
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It’s too early at this point to tell whether they intend to enslave their captives or simply eat them, but one thing is for sure - they cannot be stopped, they will soon be here.