New ant species attacks electronics

screwballl · May 15th, 2008

DailyTech - New Species of Ants in Houston Attack Computers, Electronics

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A new species of ant has arrived in Houston and is believed to have come to Texas via a cargo ship that arrived at the Port of Houston. The ants are called crazy rasberry ants. The ants get the odd name from the fact that they tend to move erratically around in search of food rather than moving in orderly lines like typical ants.
The rasberry portion of the name comes from the exterminator who first battled the new species in Houston. The ants appear to be immune to the common over the counter ant sprays that Texas residents rely on to keep ants at bay during the hot and humid summer months.
There is one upside to the new species of ant— they eat fire ants.
The crazy rasberry ant will also bite humans, but it doesn’t do so with a stinger. The new ants are about the size of fleas. So far reports have come in that the ants have invaded computers causing them to stop working and caused fire alarms to malfunction.

Badluck Inc · May 15th, 2008

Being that they eat fire ants is good , just if you could keep them out of buildings and electronics .

Boy'nBlack · May 17th, 2008

They talked about these things last night on Coast2coastAM. These people are having a hell of a time with 'em. One guy saw a few ants in his car's vent, but didn't think much of it. He put some ant traps out, but they were moved the next day. So he fogged the car. In time, windows stopped rolling down, lights in the dash going out, and the guy thought he'd bought a flood car. Take it to the dealer, and it's obvious the ants went deeper. I'd be creeped out at the bug bait's being moved first...

This feels like the lady that swallowed a cat, to catch the mouse...I'd rather have the fireants in the yard.

**stinger608** · May 17th, 2008

Ah just nuke em

oldman_gamer · May 17th, 2008

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Originally Posted by screwballl

DailyTech - New Species of Ants in Houston Attack Computers, Electronics

BAD LINK! RED WARNING ON McAFEE!
Not to bust ya but bad link....according to my stuff.
the original link is not good.

According to McAfee the site was VERY SPAMMY.Just thought you should know.
Just a wake up to what happened when I opened the link....red light from McAfee.

**One4yu2c** · May 17th, 2008

False positive - DailyTech is both clean and one of the most popular tech sites on the web.

oldman_gamer · May 18th, 2008

Here is what I get when I click on the link in the article.
Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics :: WRAL.com

screwballl · May 18th, 2008

There are 2 links, the main one to DailyTech and the other to WRAL, both should be fine. This is another reason why we discourage Mcafee

May 15th, 2008	#2
Badluck Inc WOOF! Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: New Hampshire Posts: 254	Re: New ant species attacks electronics Being that they eat fire ants is good , just if you could keep them out of buildings and electronics . Thermaltake Armor Plus Asus Maximus Formula X38 Intel Q9550 @ 3.2 w/ MX-2 Cooler master Gemin II w/ 2 Arctic Cooling 120mm 2x2gig Crucial Ballistix Tracer @ 800 2x Seagate Barracuda 250g RAID 0 EVGA GTX 285 @ 702/2646 Silverstone Decathlon 850w PSU Samsung DVD burner w/ Lightscribe Vista Home Premium 64bit Samsung 22" widescreen Logitch G5 mouse and Wave Keyboard

May 17th, 2008	#3
Boy'nBlack F Ucn rd dis U mst uzUNIX Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: South of Heaven Posts: 491 Blog Entries: 1	Re: New ant species attacks electronics They talked about these things last night on Coast2coastAM. These people are having a hell of a time with 'em. One guy saw a few ants in his car's vent, but didn't think much of it. He put some ant traps out, but they were moved the next day. So he fogged the car. In time, windows stopped rolling down, lights in the dash going out, and the guy thought he'd bought a flood car. Take it to the dealer, and it's obvious the ants went deeper. I'd be creeped out at the bug bait's being moved first... This feels like the lady that swallowed a cat, to catch the mouse...I'd rather have the fireants in the yard.

May 17th, 2008	#4
stinger608 Silence..Or I kill you! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: In the Zone! Posts: 3,937 Blog Entries: 1	Re: New ant species attacks electronics Ah just nuke em HEATWARE

May 17th, 2008	#6
One4yu2c I don't know how to put this, but, I'm kind of a big deal. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Land of the Lounge Lizards Posts: 3,250 Blog Entries: 3	Re: New ant species attacks electronics False positive - DailyTech is both clean and one of the most popular tech sites on the web.

May 18th, 2008	#7
oldman_gamer Hmmm... Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Northeast Pennsyltucky Posts: 2,115 Blog Entries: 1	Re: New ant species attacks electronics Here is what I get when I click on the link in the article. Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics :: WRAL.com Temporary sig

May 18th, 2008	#8
screwballl Colonel Calamity Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sandy South Posts: 6,275 Blog Entries: 6	Re: New ant species attacks electronics There are 2 links, the main one to DailyTech and the other to WRAL, both should be fine. This is another reason why we discourage Mcafee

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