'Crazy' ants make America panic
2mm long length, fur-covered body and fiery red-brown, "crazy" ants devastated Texas, Mississippi and prepared to "march" to Louisiana.
Aggressive and frightening, crazy ants always go into swarms with tremendous numbers. They bite and destroy everything if they want. One of their hobbies, it was terrible, was to destroy computers, TVs, electronic devices, even motorcycles and cars.
According to biologists and crazy ants originating from the Caribbean and coming to the US by sea. Their full names are "crazy furry" ants , because their whole bodies are covered with hair and sharp spines. Moreover, they always run into a small circle, as if they are crazy.
Speaking on the Daily Mail, experts from the University of Louisiana's Agricultural Center warned that crazy ants are preparing to launch a new attack on residential areas. "People and pets should not step onto the yard at the time of crazy ants, because within a few minutes, your body will be crawled and bitten by hundreds of ants."
Dr. Zack Lemann said crazy ants often "go" into thousands of children, ready to bite people and overwhelm other ant "communities" in the area. Depending on the "mood" and circumstances, they may destroy the native ants or force the native ants to flee. "They nest wherever they like and their nest can be so big that you have never seen it before. The usual measures of ants or ant control don't work with them, or just make they are more mad ". Just a few days, even hours after an ant was destroyed by ants, many other guys took their place.
Historically, Dr. Lemann said crazy ants have been in Florida since the 1950s, but they didn't begin to increase population until 2000. By 2002, they migrated to Houston, Texas and in 2009, they landed on the Mississippi coast. Crazy ants nest in stems, soil, landfills, as well as inside cars, mobile homes, motorcycles and electronic equipment. The crazy ant nesting in electrical equipment has caused electric shock and power failure in many places. Each ant nest can hold up to hundreds of thousands of ants, so, according to scientists' recommendations, in case of detecting mad ants, people need to contact the authorities immediately and avoid " "
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