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by Ray of Light 05/16/2008, 2:51am PDT |
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The hairy, reddish-brown creatures are known as "crazy rasberry ants" — crazy, because they wander erratically instead of marching in regimented lines, and "rasberry" after Tom Rasberry, an exterminator who did battle against them early on. In Texas, people can't even spell their own names.
Patsy Morphew of Pearland, who is constantly sweeping them off her patio and scooping them out of her pool by the cupful wrote:
If you've seen a car racing, that's how they are. They're going fast, fast, fast. They're crazy. Crazy rasberry ants: crazy.
"It looked like someone had come along and poured coffee granules all around the perimeter of the rooms," said Lisa Calhoun, who paid exterminators $1,200 to treat an infestation of her parents' home in the Houston suburb of Pearland. $1,200 for coffee granules?! A PURSE IS NOT FOOD.
Jason Meyers, an A&M doctoral student who is writing his dissertation on the one-eighth-inch-long ant wrote:
The population built up so high that typical ant controls simply did no good. Ostracized by his peers for an inability to compare ant activity to rocket ships, pirates, or NASCAR, Jason plans to stuff a rolled-up copy of his dissertation into a shotgun, then shoot it at the ants.
Pest Control Executive wrote:
This [ant infestation] seems to be like lava flowing and filling an entire area, getting bigger and bigger. We will use our lava expertise to predict the ants' behavior. |
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