(Above: some ants I videotaped last year. They aren’t really Crazy Rasberry Ants.)
Nothing’s quite as fun as a Hellstrom Chronicle-style news story about marauding insects. This time, it’s the delightfully-named Crazy Rasberry Ant, and it has its quivering antennae trained in the direction of San Antonio, Texas.
“Where you’ll have 200,000 ants in a big fire ant mound, you’ll have billions of crazy ants in one area, in that one group. They form a carpet of ants over acres that is several inches thick.”
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The crazy ants even kill fire ants, which many may think is good news, but they are more destructive to homes and businesses than fire ants. They pack into electrical equipment in such dense numbers that they short out computers, air conditioning units and car computers.