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At 7/3/14 05:35 PM, vidyagames wrote: what about the ALASKAN BULL WORM!!

you mean this?

They come from Africa and make everything shitty.
Not uncommon.

ohhhhhh racism ftw lololol

At 7/3/14 12:56 PM, EyeLovePoozy wrote: Whatever they are, they can't be worse than the concrete eating termites.

they exist

At 7/3/14 05:38 PM, TheGamechanger wrote:

At 7/3/14 05:35 PM, vidyagames wrote: what about the ALASKAN BULL WORM!!

you mean this?

We should take Texas and PUSH it somewhere else!

At 7/3/14 09:23 PM, kazumazkan wrote:

At 7/3/14 12:56 PM, EyeLovePoozy wrote: Whatever they are, they can't be worse than the concrete eating termites.

they exist

They don't. It's an urban legend.

At 7/3/14 12:10 PM, klompors wrote: That's it.
Ants are taken over

End of the world 15/15/15 mark your calendars

Although the infestation is bad, it's not THAT bad........

At 7/3/14 09:29 PM, NuclearInfected wrote:

At 7/3/14 05:38 PM, TheGamechanger wrote:

At 7/3/14 05:35 PM, vidyagames wrote: what about the ALASKAN BULL WORM!!

you mean this?

We should take Texas and PUSH it somewhere else!

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/d5934a903fe38a05c1bcc48bc47fca6c

At 7/3/14 12:58 PM, SubliminalVirus wrote:
NUKE TEXAS

Now that I think about it, that has bad idea written all over it. They might mutate into this......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4URRp39XOo

@Xenomit, have you heard of these ants before?

At 7/4/14 01:39 AM, TheGamechanger wrote: @Xenomit, have you heard of these ants before?

I have not.

I've seen a ton of ants in my life, cow ants (although technically not in the ant family), carpenter ants, Driver ants, Argentine ants, Bulldog ants, Bullet ants, but never a crazy ant, of the raspberry variety nonetheless.

At 7/4/14 01:59 AM, Xenomit wrote:
I have not.

I've seen a ton of ants in my life, cow ants (although technically not in the ant family), carpenter ants, Driver ants, Argentine ants, Bulldog ants, Bullet ants, but never a crazy ant, of the raspberry variety nonetheless.

They're named after the exterminator who found them

At 7/4/14 02:02 AM, TheGamechanger wrote:

At 7/4/14 01:59 AM, Xenomit wrote:
I have not.

I've seen a ton of ants in my life, cow ants (although technically not in the ant family), carpenter ants, Driver ants, Argentine ants, Bulldog ants, Bullet ants, but never a crazy ant, of the raspberry variety nonetheless.

They're named after the exterminator who found them

Yeah, I saw that. The most unbelievable thing about this video is the fact that there's a family named "Raspberry".

At 7/4/14 02:04 AM, Xenomit wrote:
Yeah, I saw that. The most unbelievable thing about this video is the fact that there's a family named "Raspberry".

At the rate those ants are spreading, I wonder how long it will take those ants to conquer the mainland United States......

At 7/3/14 12:04 PM, TheGamechanger wrote:
They sneak into and short-circuit electrical equipment, and completely take over people's homes and drive them out.
They are spreading at an alarming rate of 240-360 m per year in neighborhoods and industrial areas, and 207 m a year in rural landscapes. Other sources say they spread at 800 m per year.

People with math phobias will hate me for this but.......

At their slowest rate:

Landmass of North and South America (42,549,000,000m) / rate of spreading (240m) = 177,287,500 years

At their medium rate:

Landmass of North and South America (42,549,000,000m) / rate of spreading (360m) = 118,191,666.7 years

At their fastest rate:

Landmass of North and South America (42,549,000,000m) / rate of spreading (800m) = 53,186,250 years

With human transportation aiding the ants (including airplanes):

Landmass of North and South America (42,549,000,000m) / rate of spreading (8,000m) = 5,318,625 years

Total Landmass of the world (149,000,000,000m) / rate of spreading (8,000m) = 18,625,000 years

I can't believe you got away with bumping this.

At 8/16/14 09:06 AM, Amaranthus wrote: I can't believe you got away with bumping this.

If you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all.

At 8/16/14 09:09 AM, TheGamechanger wrote:

At 8/16/14 09:06 AM, Amaranthus wrote: I can't believe you got away with bumping this.

If you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all.

No.

Wow, sounds very similar to the European Fire Ants we have invading up here in the Northeast. They aren't attracted to indoor locations, thankfully... but they have a similar build and completely out-compete all native species. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmica_rubra)

We've got loads of the nests at my parents' house. It's a perfect environment for them, since they like humid, coastal areas and we're half a mile from the beach and adjacent to wetlands. They, too, have multiple queens per colony, tend aphids, and don't nest in mounds. The worst part is that they'll set up shop in an otherwise innocuous pile of leaves or in the roots of small plants. Birds won't nest where there's an infestation because the red ants will sting freshly-hatched chicks to death (nests will frequently be found at the base of trees and the ants will scale the trees to tend aphids on the leaves or consume the sap themselves).

The only lucky thing is that, for whatever reason, Myrmica Rubra doesn't send out winged queens in the spring here in the States. So the colonies have to spread by 'budding'.

They're TERRIBLE, though. I don't think the sting is as bad as the fire ants invading the Southern US, but if you don't notice that you've stepped on a nest you're gonna have a bad time.

It's amazing how much human activity has changed this planet.

There's only one person who can save Texas now...

At 8/15/14 11:49 PM, TheGamechanger wrote:
With human transportation aiding the ants (including airplanes):

Landmass of North and South America (42,549,000,000m) / rate of spreading (8,000m) = 5,318,625 years

Total Landmass of the world (149,000,000,000m) / rate of spreading (8,000m) = 18,625,000 years

Contiguous United States (7,663,941,700m) / rate of spreading (8,000m) = 957,992.7 years

At 8/16/14 12:31 PM, TheGamechanger wrote:

Total Landmass of the world (149,000,000,000m) / rate of spreading (8,000m) = 18,625,000 years

Contiguous United States (7,663,941,700m) / rate of spreading (8,000m) = 957,992.7 years

Landmass of Texas (696,200,000m) / rate of spreading (8,000m) = 87,025 years

At 7/3/14 01:05 PM, TheGamechanger wrote: I feel sorry for Phobotech.........

Me and Phobotech shall perish by the hands of the insect scum...

At 8/16/14 06:42 PM, RyderOmega wrote:

At 7/3/14 01:05 PM, TheGamechanger wrote: I feel sorry for Phobotech.........

Me and Phobotech shall perish by the hands of the insect scum...

The only ants that are worse than these ants are Army ants

At 8/16/14 06:49 PM, WahyahRanger wrote: I heard "invasive species"

Shall the Ranger drop some knowledge?

We should all talk about invasive species.

Such as the invasive species outbreak in the Everglades?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVDzCtysBQ4

At 8/16/14 06:54 PM, WahyahRanger wrote:

At 8/16/14 06:51 PM, TheGamechanger wrote: Such as the invasive species outbreak in the Everglades?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVDzCtysBQ4

http://www.great-lakes.net/envt/flora-fauna/invasive/goby.html

Tumbleweeds are an invasive species.