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  semut rasberry gila,…… menyerbu Houston

  http://drgsubur.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/semut-rasberry-gila...
  182 days ago in drgsubur · Authority: 10

  semut rasberry gila,…… menyerbu Houston Makhluk berbulu coklat kemerahan itu dikenal dengan sebutan “semut rasberry gila” (Paratrenicha species near pubens). Gila karena mereka tidak berjalanan beriringan, tetapi berlarian ke sana kemari tanpa pola. Rasberry sendiri diambil dari nama Tom Rasberry, seorang pembasmi yang melawan mereka baru-baru ini. “Makhluk itu sebesar lalat, lari ke sana kemari. Jumlahnya banyak sekali. Kalau Anda melihat balapan mobil, seperti itulah mereka. Larinya makin cepat saja. Mereka gila,” kata Patsy Morphew, warga Pearland yang secara berkala menyapu hewan-hewan itu dari selasar dan menyerok mereka dari kolam renangnya, Rabu (14/5) atau Kamis (15/5). Semut ini diketahui telah menyebar ke lima county di Houston sejak diketahui pertama kali di Texas pada 2002. Diyakini baru-baru ini, semut itu sampai di wilayah itu melalui pelabuhan Houston. Para ilmuwan tidak terlalu yakin dari mana asal semut itu, tetapi spesies lain yang masih satu keluarga dengan semut itu diketahui tinggal di kawasan Karibia. “Pada titik ini, nyaris tidak mungkin memberantas mereka karena sudah menyebar ke mana-mana,” kata Roger Gold, entomolog dari Texas A&M University. Tetapi masih ada berita baiknya. Mereka memangsa semut api yang selama menjadi teror saat musim panas di Texas. Mereka juga mengisap cairan manis dari tumbuh-tumbuhan, makan kumbang kecil yang menguntungkan tanaman, dan memangsa ayam bungkuk kecil yang nyaris punah, ayam padang Attwater. Mereka juga menggigit manusia, meski tidak sesakit gigitan semut api. Lebih buruk lagi, ternyata seperti jenis-jenis semut lain semut gila rasberry ini juga suka pada alat-alat listrik. Apa alasannya, hingga sekarang tak satu pun ilmuwan yang benar-benar paham. sumber : FoxNews
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  Beware! Fireants are back!

  http://heidibugs.blogspot.com/2008/05/beware-fireants-are-ba...
  201 days ago in Enjoy the little things in life · Authority: 5

  Poor Joey. He loves being outside, and I love for him to be outside too. It keeps him out of stuff, but the fireants are back! We've had tons of rain, and that's what fireants love! The love weird stuff, and can survive anywhere... water & electrical outlets! Crazy! Maybe we should put the 3 together? Yesterday he was outside in the front porch/walkway (look at slideshow below) after it had dried up a bit from the storms the night before, and next thing I know, he is crying. Go check, and he has ants all over him. Poor little hands & legs have a few bites on them. These ants are not nice at all! Evil, evil they are! They are 1 of 2 bugs that I hate (the other: roaches!) When I was younger, my family lived in the SE corner of Alabama. We were right on the border of FL & GA. We used to have them there too. I remember one day that my sisters were playing at the park across the street, and my sister, Hilary, got pushed down into a fireant bed. I think she was about 4. They attacked her little legs. I know it had to hurt! I've been bit a few times here, and they can leave some scars! The map shows where fireants are at now. My father-in-law said that 20 years ago fireants started showing up here. They are moving north & west. Be prepared! And nothing kills them except fire! ETA: Just read this on FoxNews (Roger Gold mentioned in the article is LDS... used to be in his stake), but I sure don't want them here either! There was a fireant spray that was really good many years ago, but I think FDA or something like that pulled it. Began with a 'D'. It was some great stuff. We bought as much as we could before it was pulled at Lowes. Unfortunately it's no longer available. And like I said before, the ants do like water. I've watched the Discovery Channel before on fireants. If you ever see it on, watch it. It's very interesting! They can form a ball of ants, and can move in the water by continuing to move. It's crazy! I think it was last summer or the summer before, that when we were at my parents (who have a pool), the kids jumped in, and almost immediately started getting bit by ants. There was a ball of ants in my parents pool! We got them out, but not before we got bit! Ouch!
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  Game Over Man

  http://www.wunderkraut.com/index.php/archives/2008/05/15/gam...
  201 days ago in WunderKraut · Authority: 15

  Game Over Man Great… Apparently Houston, TX is being overrun by an imported ant. As if fire ants were not bad enough, these jokers seem to be super ants. The good news: They eat fire ants, the stinging red terrors of Texas (and Georgia) summers. Besides swarming over houses and electrical equipment, here is the bad news, they …appear to be resistant to over-the-counter ant killers. … It’s not enough just to kill the queen. Experts say each colony has multiple queens that have to be taken out. … And when you do kill these ants, the survivors turn it to their advantage: They pile up the dead, sometimes using them as a bridge to cross safely over surfaces treated with pesticide. Holy Crap! Well guys, it’s all over now. I for one, welcome our new ant overlords.
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  Early links for Thurs., 2008 May 15

  http://aroscoe.net/rpn/?p=1221
  202 days ago in Roscoe’s Public Notes / Sharing my hobbies, things I find interesting, events of my day, etc., with y’all. · Authority: 6

  Early links for Thurs., 2008 May 15 May 15th, 2008 PRWeb :: Splashtop to Ship on Millions of ASUS Motherboards, Starting with P5Q Family San Jose, CA (PRWEB) May 14, 2008 — DeviceVM, the award-winning developer of Splashtop™, today announced the proliferation of their innovative software across four new models of ASUS motherboards. ASUS, the leading worldwide motherboard, components and notebook manufacturer, has integrated Splashtop onto the new P5Q family of products, bringing their offering of Splashtop-enabled motherboards to a total of twelve. The new models are: P5Q Deluxe, P5Q-WS, P5Q3 Deluxe, and P5Q-E. “We are excited to have expanded our partnership with ASUS across many product lines,” says Mark Lee, co-founder and CEO of DeviceVM. “ASUS is not only a leading innovator in computer hardware, but is actively improving the entire PC consumer experience through software. We are excited to jointly drive the market innovation with ASUS.” “In response to great user feedback, our plan is to proliferate Express Gate across our entire motherboard product portfolio, starting with over one million motherboards per month,” says Joe Hsieh, General Manager, ASUS Motherboard Business Unit. “Consumers want to turn their PCs on and off like any other appliance, and Express Gate has made that possible.” […] Reuters :: Russia and Europe may team up for moon flights MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and Europe are teaming up to build a spaceship which will fly astronauts to the moon, Russia said on Wednesday, although the European Space Agency struck a more cautious note. The first test flight is set for 2015 and the first manned flight is planned for 2018, Russian space agency Roskosmos said. “The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roskosmos both have the technologies and unique experience in designing various space systems to be able to create jointly a hi-tech vehicle,” Roskosmos said on its website (www.roscosmos.ru). […] Wired :: Review: Asus Eee PC 900 Is Even Better Second Time Around Asus’s long-awaited 9-inch (well, 8.9-inch) version of its groundbreaking Eee PC 4G arrives with all the familiar trappings installed … only this time it’s a little bigger — in more ways than one. Not only is the screen bumped up from seven inches to nine, the RAM is doubled (from 512 MB to 1 GB), the solid state storage system jumps from 4 GB to 20 GB, and, of course, the price takes a leap, too, hitting the $550 mark. […] FOXNEWS.com :: ‘Crazy’ Ants Swarm Houston Area, Ruin Electronic Devices DALLAS — In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, 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. 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. “They’re itty-bitty things about the size of fleas, and they’re just running everywhere,” said Patsy Morphew of Pearland, who is constantly sweeping them off her patio and scooping them out of her pool by the cupful. “There’s just thousands and thousands of them. If you’ve seen a car racing, that’s how they are. They’re going fast, fast, fast. They’re crazy.” […] Posted in news | No Comments »
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  A Closer Look

  http://endlessjrny.blogspot.com/2008/05/closer-look.html
  202 days ago in Endless Journey and The Knight Zone · Authority: 1

  'Crazy' Ants Swarm Houston Area, Ruin Electronic Devices DALLAS — In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, 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. 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. "They're itty-bitty things about the size of fleas, and they're just running everywhere," said Patsy Morphew of Pearland, who is constantly sweeping them off her patio and scooping them out of her pool by the cupful. "There's just thousands and thousands of them. If you've seen a car racing, that's how they are. They're going fast, fast, fast. They're crazy." The ants — formally known as "paratrenicha species near pubens" — have spread to five Houston-area counties since they were first spotted in Texas in 2002. The newly recognized species is believed to have arrived in a cargo shipment through the port of Houston. Scientists are not sure exactly where the ants came from, but their cousins, commonly called crazy ants, are found in the Southeast and the Caribbean. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355741,00.html
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  And They Say the People There Are Crazy?

  http://kimexplainsitall1944.typepad.com/annies_inferno/2008/...
  202 days ago in Annie's Inferno · Authority: 22

  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355741,00.html "I got ants in my pants. I got ants in my pants" BOW

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