Yorkieabroad

From our local news station:-

http://www.click2houston.com/news/gi...t/-/index.html

Sounds like something from a bad 60's B movie.....

100weight

Must have taken them forever to cross the Atlantic.

RICH

Apparently my post in another thread last month under estimated the speed they can travel

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showp...9&postcount=43

Yorkieabroad

Flippin 'eck- they got from South Florida to Texas in 2 weeks!

That makes them capable of about 4mph - faster if you factor in rest stops...It gets more like that B movie all the time - better lock up the small pets, kids and wrinklies.....

scrubbedexpat097

...and after watching channel 2 tonight, what the heck are raspberry ants? How many types of ants can we have in Texas??

Yorkieabroad

we're about due the annual update on the crazy ants, no?

Weeze

Oh, I think I like them. Firstly they are called crazy raspberry ants and any animal that gets a crazy in its name has got to be good. Secondly they eat fire ants but don't seem to bite us.

Weeze

Oh, and this is how the conversation went in our house last night.

Weeze, why is there a bucket in my parking space?

Because its trapping or killing the big scary thing. Or possibly just angering the big scary thing.

"Moves bucket". There's just a dead paper wasp under here.

Hmmmm, well either it looked scarier when it had friends, or the scary thing killed the paper wasp and escaped. I don't really remember. I was rushing.

Yorkieabroad

So raspberry ants and crazy ants are the same thing? Well I never....
I guess I can reduce my list of "Nasty Little Buggers That Can Really Mess You Up in Texas" by 1

And they may not bite, but they play havoc with electrics...which could be life threatening round here - imagine the spike in suicide rates if people lost their cable tv!! At least they're spreading east - west, so they'll get to you first I believe they're faster than the snails, (although they are partial to a Buc'ees now and then), so you probably won't get a chance to post a warning before being overwhelmed - so we'll just take an extended silence to mean they got you...

Gingerert

Aaaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!

Reminds me of those enormous coconut crabs you get in hotter climates. I'm never leaving WI again.

Yorkieabroad

Funny you should say that (Never leaving WI...) - I was just scanning a back issue of Hispanically Speaking News, as I am wont to do, and I came across this little gem...

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews....as-video/7297/

And this is what it looked like before it met the shoe...

Gingerert

Oh good Lord. I really, really hate spiders. Spiders, centipedes, crabs... anything with unnecessarily long legs (that doesn't include supermodels, although they can be pretty terrifying too).

If I found a scary-as-all-hell spider in my bananas I think I'd pass out. That Brazilian f.cker would get clean away.

SultanOfSwing

They're more scared of you than you are of them. Or at least that's the commonly accepted theory.

Those big ones probably think they're hard, so may not follow that logic.

Gingerert

You might be right, but their haste to get away freaks me out even more. That running, crawling, wriggling thing gives me the heebie jeebies.

It's also getting worse the older I get. By the time I'm 70 I'm going to have to live in a perspex box by myself.

SultanOfSwing

At least they're running away from you. It's when they start running at you that you need to worry