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May 18th, 2008, 09:15 AM
#1
Attack of the Killer Ants
Maybe I should have posted this in "Oops a bug"
A flood of voracious ants is heading straight for Houston, taking out computers, radios and even vehicles in their path.
Now I have heard of roaches causing problems because they eat the wiring but these critters cause damage by sheer weight of numbers creating short circuits.
And in all my years of hardware support all I have ever come across is a few dead spiders.
Story is here:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...rs.html?page=1
Last edited by nihil; May 18th, 2008 at 02:47 PM.
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May 18th, 2008, 06:31 PM
#2
Diesel is the cure. Just keep a sprayer full of diesel by the servers.
When death sleeps it dreams of you...
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May 19th, 2008, 02:46 AM
#3
Diesel is the cure. Just keep a sprayer full of diesel by the servers.
You forgot to mention the ammonium nitrate
The problem seems to be that there are so many of the critters that if you lay a contact poison they just clamber over the dead bodies of their comrades?
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May 20th, 2008, 12:46 PM
#4
Sounds like the Russians in WW II.
Mad Beaver
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May 20th, 2008, 01:25 PM
#5
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May 20th, 2008, 06:11 PM
#6
I'm going to have to take notes on this. Dallas is about 4 hours north of Houston, and I've heard predictions that they'll likely head this way within the next few years. Practically half our apartment is electronics. Oh yay.
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May 20th, 2008, 10:35 PM
#7
Hi there AK,
Please pass the word around.............. "Borax"........... it kills all known ants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borax
Please contact your local media
And let your local corrupt politician know that the "wife's cousin's uncle" who just happens to be in pest control is just outa a job
Last edited by nihil; May 20th, 2008 at 10:45 PM.
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May 20th, 2008, 11:08 PM
#8
If there's anything they know how to do here in Texas, it's got to be getting rid of ants. Borax, I'm going to guess, is as ineffective - probably way more ineffective - at getting rid of billions of ants than the "real" stuff is (Termidor). It's the sheer number that's the problem, not so much how to kill them...
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May 21st, 2008, 01:56 AM
#9
I just use Talcan Powder, just pour it around the house and the Ants hate the stuff. They go near it and turn and run the other way for some odd reason.
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May 21st, 2008, 10:28 AM
#10
Hmmmm,
Termidor? don't you mean
5-amino-1-[2,6-dichloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]-4-
(trifluoromethylsulfinyl)-1H-pyrazole-3-carbonitrile?
Even if the manufacturer’s claim that fipronil is not absorbed into the body but remains on the skin surface were true, it would only serve to make fipronil even more dangerous than it is already known to be. In the presence of sunlight fipronil is now known to break down into an extremely stable chemical approximately 10 times as toxic as fipronil itself, fipronil-desulfinyl, which has a much greater tendency to bind to the GABA receptors than fipronil.
Not good if you keep children or rabbits
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