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Swarming Ants Destroy Electronics in Texas

Posted by timothy on from the where's-tiny-ender-when-you-need-him dept.

AntOverlords writes "Voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers. They have ruined pumps at sewage pumping stations, fouled computers and at least one homeowner's gas meter, and caused fire alarms to malfunction. They have been spotted at NASA's Johnson Space Center and close to Hobby Airport, though they haven't caused any major problems there yet."

2 of 328 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Undocumented insects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Did anyone else read where these ants kill fire ants?

    Nevermind, this is /., no one RTFA.

    Having one invasive species killing off another invasive species.

    Sounds like the man who had a mouse problem, so he got a cat.
    Had a cat problem so he got a dog.
    Had a dog problem so he got a tiger.
    Had a tiger problem, so he got an elephant.

    Had an elephant problem, so he got a mouse.

  2. Re:Happens all the time Mexico by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You're a fucking retard. Hey why don't you read the article and the GP. We are talking about TEXAS and the GP was talking about MEXICO. no one is talking about where ever the fuck you're living. I'm just going to assume that you live in Europe because anytime someone mentions anything that has to do with the United States you fucking lame pedantic retards come out of the wood work and hijacking the thread with your elitist crap. If we were talking about Sweden then north and south would have a different geographical meaning than texas and mexico. Idiot.