16. Bill O'Reilly declared on his show the other night during his pinheads and patriots segment that each and every one of the raspberry ants is a pinhead. Ha ha. That was funny.

audrey at 7:55PM on May 17th 2008

17. O'Rielly must be a crazy rasberry ant too.

Captain Negative at 1:53PM on May 18th 2008

18. Texas Woman, I just returned for El Paso. Wonderful time. Wonderful people. The "Texians" I met there each had a wonderful sense of humor. I'm guessing you're not from El Paso.

Captain Negative at 4:31PM on May 18th 2008

19. I've never seen an ant break an airtight seal. Proper calking or rubber should help with electrical boxes. Laptops... maybe keep them out of the ants reach. An airtight case or something.

Wonder where they'll go after they can't get to the electrical boxes and laptops!? They gotta go somewhere!

Rhylo at 1:16PM on May 19th 2008

20. Shut down all computers that have AOL installed and send Denush to the border so the ants will follow his electric personality.

pajagman at 2:26PM on May 19th 2008

21. Raberry Ants infesting a warm climate condusive to cockroaches will be a past "good" memory once Global Warming takes it's affect. Earth based life is conscious, all life on Earth is conscious, in some manner, including Rasberry Ants. Once the effect of global weather change warms the planet to the extent that rain fall reaches record numbers, areas of the Earth become unbalance as we currently know natural balance, and wet lands began producing natural conditions condusive to alertering our known animal species to the endangered list, the insects will take over, consciously growing to record size, and migrating to otherwise areas of the globe where once there were no insect infestations. The fate of conscious life on Planet Earth is now in it's alteration, insects will be a major factor to the newly warmed planet's normal ecological face.

Rose at 5:25PM on May 19th 2008

22. Hey! LET'S ALL BLAME:
1: God ; 2: Everyone Else; 3: NOT Me; 4: Them;
5: The Politicians; 6: The Government; 7: Those Other People;
8: Those Other People's Government; 9: People with More Money than We Have;
10: The Devil

Th1nkF1rst at 10:42AM on May 20th 2008

23. http://japanetics.blogspot.com

brettkun at 6:40PM on May 20th 2008

24. Send in Blackwater and Halliburton. I hear they both can handle any situation for an exorbitant amount of taxpayer money.

jailarson at 6:41PM on May 20th 2008

25. no lo queremos, es lleno de evilgelicals

What the? As a red-blooded Americam, I don't have a clue what this means. I just like to make fun of multilingual peoples's accents when they speak English. As for the ants, perhaps electrical traps would work, along with a clog dancing convention or two.

Red Blooded and Necked at 7:33AM on May 21st 2008

26. Rose,
So, you have fallen for Gore's stupidity? Get a grip. Global warming is a farce that was created to keep this country and the world in a state of fear. The warmer temps that have been documented are part of a global cycle that has repeated itself many times throughout history.
I rate your comments right up there with "no lo queremos, es lleno de evilgelicals". They just don't make any sense to an AMERICAN with an education in the English language.

Jeff at 11:12AM on May 21st 2008

27. Keith does not know what he is talking about, only reproductive ants (swarmers) have wings, not the whole colony. Ships are a good source of ants, check into fire ant history in this country.
Non repellant insecticides and liquid ant bait would seem to be the way to go.
This looks like a serious problem, between harborage spots and the fact that they eliminate other species, thise with natural checks and balances in place, we could have issues. It looks mucjh like the repeat of Red Imported Fire Ants and how they became such an issue in this country.
What I don't understand is they are named after the pest control guy who couldn't control them.

kevin at 1:32PM on May 21st 2008

28. I say we kill all the dim wit liberal rasberry ants. This works on the fire ants, so maybe the rasberries will like it too.

Fire Ant Killer Recipe

5 lb yellow corn meal
½ cup sugar
6 oz cherry Jell-o-powder
4 tablespoons 75% acephate

This mixture will be enough to fill a 1 gallon container. I shake it thoroughly in small amounts in a separate container as I mix it and then pour it into the one gallon container a little at a time to make sure it is mixed well.

Put about 2 tablespoons in the form of a ridge around the base of the fire ant mound. It doesn’t have to go all the way around. Stomp on the ground to get a few ants to come out and then leave them alone. Don’t disturb the mound itself. If it’s a really large mound you might have to treat it again with the same amount.

All I know is that it has worked on every single mound I have treated. This doesn’t mean that you won’t have new mounds from time to time because the little devils have a way of migrating. That’s how you got them in the first place.

Man_in_Wilderness at 8:05PM on May 24th 2008

29. Look up how they control fire ants in texas. Forehead flies, I think they're called. They are natural parasites of the fire ants.

Find out where the native country of origin is. Go there. Seek out the ants. Then seek out their parasites and predators. Culture some here, and release near our ants. Voila!

Incidentally, I'm from the northeasat, and we have lots of small "sugar ants."

When I went to Florida, I think I saw some of these raspberry ants. Small, soft-bodied, long legs for an ant, and very, VERY fast. Not like our ants at all. For that matter, same with the fire ants. Much faster. It's the climate. Tropical and semitropicaql climes produve faster bugs in general. I once say a roach in Jamaica that moved so fast that it was unswattable.... much faster than roaches move in New England or Florida. (But, the florida roaches are still faster then the New England species, I've onserved)

Godless Heathen Brian at 3:35PM on May 30th 2008

30. Incidentally, if they weren't these raspberry ants, they were similar. The ones I encountered in Florida, I discovered one day when I started my car. About twenty ants flew out of my air conditioning... This continued to happen EVERY time I started my car... Apparently they had made a NEST in my air conditioner, inside my car!!! It was a BITCH to kill them, too. Car stank for weeks.

They were so fast, they looked more like tiny fast spiders, but they were ants, rest assured. And very soft-bodied, which was strange. I mean, the tiny ants around here are pretty hard-bodied. Same with fire ants. I've swatted them. They die, but you have to try a bit. These, well, they were fragile. If you even tried to lightly brush one with your hand, they came apart. No stings, either. Not aggressive at all. Just persistent.

Godless Heathen Brian at 3:41PM on May 30th 2008