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Crazy raspberry ants invade Houston, destroy electronics
Crazy raspberry ants invade Houston, destroy electronics
We're not sure where they came from, we don't really know how to stop them, and they're eating our electronics from the inside out!

The only (and small) good news is they eat fire ants. picked by lynxears 2 months ago
tags ants Texas electronics crazy raspberry ants
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 pocksucket
2 months ago
Worse, they, like some other species of ants, are attracted to electrical equipment, for reasons that are not well understood by scientists.
It's an old problem and it's pretty well understood.

Some types of insulating coatings on PCBs contain sugars (don't know what kind, probably cellulose related though) which the ants are attracted to.
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 letter10
2 months ago
« pocksucket : It's an old problem and it's pretty well understood.

Some types of insulating coatings on PCBs contain sugars (don't know what kind, probably cellulose related though) which the ants are attracted to.
so do they sell sugar-free electronics? is this something i should request next time incase the crazy ants of texas make it across the oklahoma border?
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 pocksucket
2 months ago
« letter10 : so do they sell sugar-free electronics? is this something i should request next time incase the crazy ants of texas make it across the oklahoma border?
Diet computers. It's the future.
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 mewhitenoise
2 months ago
crazy raspberry ants, I love that name. It sounds like some weird kind of ant treat.
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 pocksucket
2 months ago
« mewhitenoise : crazy raspberry ants, I love that name. It sounds like some weird kind of ant treat.
Well I've had chocolate covered ants, so yeah, I'd be game for raspberry ants.
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