A new species of ant has invaded the Houston, Texas area and surrounding counties.
According to experts, they're impossible to get rid of, the colonies have multiple queens, and they bite humans.

Here's more:

http://www.click2houston.com/news/16272261/detail.html

Wow, that's messed up but it's good that they aren't as big as this sumbitch...


http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6639/giantantiv5.jpg


YIKES!!


But of course it's real

Damn. Why can't I make the pic SMALLER?? It makes that large ant even larger... obviously.

DOH!

It's....it's.....



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A new species of ant has invaded the Houston, Texas area and surrounding counties.
According to experts, they're impossible to get rid of, the colonies have multiple queens, and they bite humans.

Here's more:

http://www.click2houston.com/news/16272261/detail.html


eeewww...no thanks,I've dealt with being used as a snackbar for red ants when I lived in Miami. Texas can keep these ones. :D

sounds like a job for DDT.

all that free trade, and mass intercontinental transport is just fun ain't it? hard to tell what will pop up in yer house next.

Remember those tales Grandma would tell about tarantulas in bananas and to beware of bananas at the grocery store???

Well, turns out Granny was right. (Granny was ALWAYS right.
Just ask Grandpa, but anyhoo.....)

I was going through some 1893 newspapers the other day and ran across this story from Lebanon, Indiana.
A grocery clerk was bitten by a huge tarantula hiding in a big bunch of banans. Upon further inspection, a nest of TWO HUNDRED UGLY FAT DEADLY SPIDERS was found in another big bunch.

That was all that was in the story.

Sweet dreams........

This board is giving me nightmares.


GHAAAAAAAAACK!!


http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/188/tarantulagirlpn0.jpg

Hopefully these imported ants will learn to eat mosquitos... then Houston would welcome them with open arms!

*ouch*

*slap*

Hopefully these imported ants will learn to eat mosquitos... then Houston would welcome them with open arms!

*ouch*

*slap*

Perhaps you can be their teacher, yes? :confused:

According to this article, they eat fire ants.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_on_re_us/texas_ants

Remember those tales Grandma would tell about tarantulas in bananas and to beware of bananas at the grocery store???

Well, turns out Granny was right. (Granny was ALWAYS right.
Just ask Grandpa, but anyhoo.....)

I was going through some 1893 newspapers the other day and ran across this story from Lebanon, Indiana.
A grocery clerk was bitten by a huge tarantula hiding in a big bunch of banans. Upon further inspection, a nest of TWO HUNDRED UGLY FAT DEADLY SPIDERS was found in another big bunch.

That was all that was in the story.

Sweet dreams........

Yeah... we decided it would be fun to live 'in the country' one time and rented a place on 18 acres. House was made of those big red sandstone rocks that I later found out are a haven for spiders and scorpions! Got used to opening the under-sink cabinets with a broom handle after about the 3rd time I came face to face with a tarantula, raring up on his/her back legs at me. Finally moved when the old man got stung on the butt by a scorpion in the middle of the night!

~shudder~

No likes critters that bite/sting/scare hell outta me.

:(

Perhaps you can be their teacher, yes? :confused:

Here I come to save the day...

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Here I come to save the day...

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t33/texrose752/spiderwoman.jpg

Wowie!!! Those pesky ants have no chance with the likes of you!

Um, can you fly on over to my dump and kills some giant cockroaches for me?

Wowie!!! Those pesky ants have no chance with the likes of you!

Um, can you fly on over to my dump and kills some giant cockroaches for me?

Spiders don't fly, silly.

But if you ask real nice, I'll saunter your way! Oughta be there in, oh, say, 3-4 months.

Prob be quicker to buy yourself some Roach Motels.

Yeah... we decided it would be fun to live 'in the country' one time and rented a place on 18 acres. House was made of those big red sandstone rocks that I later found out are a haven for spiders and scorpions! Got used to opening the under-sink cabinets with a broom handle after about the 3rd time I came face to face with a tarantula, raring up on his/her back legs at me. Finally moved when the old man got stung on the butt by a scorpion in the middle of the night!

~shudder~

No likes critters that bite/sting/scare hell outta me.

:(

My ex, bless his miserable heart, once was stung by a wasp while he was snoozing in bed, which was something he did frequently.

He later accused me of smuggling in the wasp and planting it in the bed (that I also slept in) just for fun/or to be mean.

What a ninny--if I'd a meant to kill him, there would have been a rattlesnake in there ( who, after biting him, probably woulda died from extreme alcohol poisoning).

My ex, bless his miserable heart, once was stung by a wasp while he was snoozing in bed, which was something he did frequently.

He later accused me of smuggling in the wasp and planting it in the bed (that I also slept in) just for fun/or to be mean.

What a ninny--if I'd a meant to kill him, there would have been a rattlesnake in there ( who, after biting him, probably woulda died from extreme alcohol poisoning).

LOL... there's a reason those exes are exes, ain't there?

My ex, bless his miserable heart, once was stung by a wasp while he was snoozing in bed, which was something he did frequently.

that where i tend to do my sleeping:confused:

He later accused me of smuggling in the wasp and planting it in the bed (that I also slept in) just for fun/or to be mean.

it would have been funny..if he was sleeping in while you were working.:corn:

What a ninny--if I'd a meant to kill him, there would have been a rattlesnake in there ( who, after biting him, probably woulda died from extreme alcohol poisoning).

poor snake:(

Wowie!!! Those pesky ants have no chance with the likes of you!

Um, can you fly on over to my dump and kills some giant cockroaches for me?
get a gecko.

my cousin is avaible...

http://images.usatoday.com/money/_photos/2006/07/17/inside-geico.jpg

1.that where i tend to do my sleeping:confused:



2.it would have been funny..if he was sleeping in while you were working.:corn:





1. After that escapade, he slept in the shed.

2. It was funny anyway--but not as funny as when my mom was stung on the butt by a bee and several days later, decided she was dying of a toxic bee sting and drove herself to the emergency room.

We're a nice family.

Spiders don't fly, silly.

But if you ask real nice, I'll saunter your way! Oughta be there in, oh, say, 3-4 months.

Prob be quicker to buy yourself some Roach Motels.

Ya, sure. If spiders don't fly, then why do you have wings? Go look, you goofball.

3 - 4 months? Fugettabowdit. I'll hafta get a Roach Motel, I guess. Poo on you.


http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5162/raochmotelag9.jpg


At least this one has HBO. :thumbs:

We're a nice family.

Uh...... alrighty then. Nice, but normal? I doan theen so.


:lolhit:

Uh...... alrighty then. Nice, but normal? I doan theen so.


:lolhit:

I have NEVER been so insulted!

(not even by Diaperedbum)

I have NEVER been so insulted!

(not even by Diaperedbum)

Dat's just the beginning of my insults. Stay tuned for further attractions :D