Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Invasion of crazy ants that dine on your iPhone


They're very hairy.
(Credit: KEYE-TV Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) It was first spotted in Houston. But then so many strange phenomena are.
Now it's heading your way, regardless of where you might be keeping safe in these excitable United States.
It might seem to you as if it's had a few drinks. But no amount of offering it your Jack or your Bacardi will keep it from one thing it really wants in its mouth.
Yes, your S4, iPhone 5 or, indeed, anything that smacks of electronica.
Nylanderia fulva is its name. But you, at least as far as scientists are concerned, can call it the "crazy ant."
This is to be distinguished from the crazy aunt. She will only start chewing through your DVR cables after she's been at the Bacardi.
As ABC News explains it, we should all be very concerned. These ants used to hang in Argentina and Brazil.
Now they are with us, and they truly are quite crazy. Their path is the kind of meandering mess that the inebriated would eschew. They're only an eighth of an inch long, so you'll hardly see them before it's too late...Read here, video 'Rise of the Crazy Ants'

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