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  • May 2008
    • Crazy Ants Munch Through Houston

      Crazy Ants Munch Through Houston

      (Newser) - Houston, you have an ant problem. Billions of ravenous ants have invaded the city and are chomping their way through the city's electrical equipment, causing shorts and failure, AP reports. The previously unknown species—dubbed "crazy raspberry ants"—apparently arrived in Texas on a cargo ship. The invading army is resistant to conventional ant pesticides. More »

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      Texas   Houston   insects   pests   exterminators   ants

  • March 2008
    • Cheating, Corruption Rampant in Ant Society

      Cheating, Corruption Rampant in Ant Society

      (Newser) - A power-mad elite is secretly rigging the system so their offspring rise to power, LiveScience reports. That’s the situation a team of researchers has discovered in ant society—not exactly the epitome of community collaboration once thought. Until now, it appeared that any properly-fed larvae could hatch into a queen, but now researchers have found a secret ant elite, which has evolved a DNA strand more likely to produce ruling offspring. More »

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      DNA   evolution   nature   animal behavior   larvae   nature vs. nurture   ants

  • March 2007
    • Ant Farm Con Man Gets Death

      Ant Farm Con Man Gets Death

      (Newser) - A pyramid scheme built on an ant farm earned a Chinese entrepreneur over $400 million—and a death sentence. The sentence meted out to Wang Zhendong by a Chinese court last month is part of a nationwide crackdown on fraud. Wang swindled thousands of people by misrepresenting his wares as rare, medicinal ants, when in fact they were just…ants. More »

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      China   medicine   fraud   death penalty   death sentence   ants   pyramid scheme

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