[OT?] Giant ant colony conquers Europe!

Piratecat · Apr 16, 2002

I kid you not.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/15/super.antcolonies.ap/index.html

There's an adventure here.

EricNoah · Apr 17, 2002

Jeez, PC, looks like your days of being "popular" are over. It took nearly 3 hours for someone to respond to your post!

I think everyone else is just sick and tired of your constant off-topic posting, that's what I think, I do!

MythandLore · Apr 17, 2002

EricNoah said:
Jeez, PC, looks like your days of being "popular" are over. It took nearly 3 hours for someone to respond to your post!

I think everyone else is just sick and tired of your constant off-topic posting, that's what I think, I do!

lol.

Piratecat said:
I kid you not.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/15/super.antcolonies.ap/index.html

There's an adventure here.

Those are the same ants that are in california now, their pretty much impossible to get rid of with store bought poison.

Ysgarran · Apr 17, 2002

MythandLore, you beat me to it.

These same ants are in California, I wonder why it wasn't mentioned in the CNN article.

http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/2000/05/05192000/ants_13100.asp?P=1

MythandLore · Apr 17, 2002

Ysgarran said:
MythandLore, you beat me to it.

These same ants are in California, I wonder why it wasn't mentioned in the CNN article.

http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/2000/05/05192000/ants_13100.asp?P=1

Wow, cool article.
The only reason I know they are in California is I have them at my house.

You can't kill them with conventional stuff, everything you by at a store that says they "kill the queen" or whatever does not work.
Now I know why.
I didn't relize they have these linked 'super' colonies before.
We've had those ants for a long time now.
The bad part about the ants is our native ones are pretty much gone now.
Now fire ants are in californa too.
The only good thing is they got here before the fire ants did.
Looks like the ant world is headed for a show down.
Id rather have them then fire ants.

We have Killer bees too.
Last week I was driving thru Pasadena and drove into a swarm of thousands of bees at an intersection, now that was surreal.
They found some new kinds of potato bugs out here in so cal too.
Well not really new, the people that live near them know about them, just not scientists.
What's up with all these bugs being here?

Holy Bovine · Apr 17, 2002

EricNoah said:
Jeez, PC, looks like your days of being "popular" are over. It took nearly 3 hours for someone to respond to your post!

I think everyone else is just sick and tired of your constant off-topic posting, that's what I think, I do!

I think we just saw that PC said there were ants taking over Europe and (those of us not in Europe) said "Huh, bummer. Must be true though PC said so." And felt nothing more needed to be said.

Then you had to come along and spoil it all.

Trevalon Moonleirion · Apr 17, 2002

Not sure if anyone else found this article while reading the other one, but here it is just in case:

http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/08/11/fire.ants/index.html?related

I have fully decided that I will NEVER move south after being reminded of how much I hate bugs. Scorpions, centipedes, fire ants....*shudders*

EDIT: My link is about FIRE ants. And don't we all like BURNING???!!!

Hand of Vecna · Apr 17, 2002

THEM!

DM with a vengence · Apr 17, 2002

There is only one way to comnat the Bug menace. We must enlist in the Micro-Infantry, where we will fly through there tunnels in our Power-Armored suits flaming them down. What are you doing?

(Failed Sanity Check+Starship Troopers Movie != Good Idea)

Wheeeeeeeee!