Crazy Ants Attack Computers

You think you have bug problems? NASA is concerned that they may be overrun by crazy ants.

Here's an article from Sharon Gaudin at Computerworld

A flood of voracious ants is heading straight for Houston, taking out computers,
radios and even vehicles in their path.Even the Johnson Space Center has called
in extermination experts to keep the pests out of their sensitive and critical
systems.The ants have been causing all kinds of trouble in five Texas counties
in and around the Gulf Coast. Because of their sheer numbers, the ants are short
circuiting computers in homes and offices, and knocking systems offline in major
businesses. When IT personnel pry the affected computers open, they find the
machines loaded with thousands of ant bodies.The ants have been dubbed Crazy
Rasberry ants after Tom Rasberry, owner of Budget Pest Control in Pearland,
Texas. He first tackled this particular type of ant back in 2002. Since then,
the problem has only escalatedThe Johnson Space Center called in Rasberry a
month or two ago in an attempt to keep the ants out of their facilities. Too
late. Raspberry said he's found three colonies at the NASA site, but all have
been small enough to control.'With the computer systems they have in there, it
could devastate the facility," said Rasberry. "If these ants got into the
facility in the numbers they have in other locations, well, it would be awful.
I've been in this business for 32 years and this is unlike anything I've ever
seen. Anything. When you bring in entomologists from all over the United States
and they're in shock and awe, that shows you what it's like."Part of the problem
is that exterminators have found it nearly impossible to kill the ants. Oh, you
can kill some of them - the first wave, maybe. However, there are so many more
ants coming behind them, that the first wave falls dead in the insecticide and
the subsequent waves merely walk on the dead bodies, keeping themselves out of
the poison and safe from harm.