Hairy, crazy ants invade from Texas to Miss.

[Dover]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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.

It's an extreme example of what can happen when the ants — which also can disable huge industrial plants — go unchecked. Controlling them can cost thousands of dollars. But the story is real, told by someone who's been studying ants for a decade

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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.....



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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/01/hairy-crazy-ants-invade-f_n_990185.html

[lbrtbell]

1. They sound a lot like invading Teabaggers - n/t

[Dover]

2. A lesson from nature in how to conduct a people's insurrection...

how numbers and unpredictability can overwhelm...

Some amazing videos at that website of how these 'crazy' ants work.

[cutlassmama]

3. following the ants are scorpions eating them. Scorpions are worse.

[wtmusic]

4. Better than hairy, crazy aunts. nt