'Crazy Ants' invading Southern US, supplanting Fire

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http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article119116923.html
>These 'crazy ants' love to munch on cellphones and TVs. Are they headed your way?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4006188/Texas-plagued-tawny-crazy-ants-23-counties-South-Carolina-next.html
>Texas plagued by millions-strong swarms of electricity-obsessed 'crazy ants' in 23 counties that chew up phones and TVs - and South Carolina may be next

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/crazy-ants-are-the-new-fire-ants-and-possibly-worse/ruULI9Iue1MbIHaIqUmiBM/v
>Crazy ants are the new fire ants (and possibly worse)
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>Nature does have a way of keeping crazy ants in check in South America, though. Several other species of ants tend to kill crazy ants by outcompeting them for food. UT science writer Marc Airhart compares the situation to a game of rock-paper-scissors: crazy ants beat fire ants, fire ants beat other ants, and other ants beat crazy ants.

>The big problem in Texas is that no local species appears to beat crazy ants. Bringing in the South American ants would only create another problem, LeBrun said, because many of the ants in that habitat could turn out to be highly invasive.

>If fire ants are rock, and crazy ants are paper, there are no scissors here.Nature does have a way of keeping crazy ants in check in South America, though. Several other species of ants tend to kill crazy ants by outcompeting them for food. UT science writer Marc Airhart compares the situation to a game of rock-paper-scissors: crazy ants beat fire ants, fire ants beat other ants, and other ants beat crazy ants.

>The big problem in Texas is that no local species appears to beat crazy ants. Bringing in the South American ants would only create another problem, LeBrun said, because many of the ants in that habitat could turn out to be highly invasive.

>If fire ants are rock, and crazy ants are paper, there are no scissors here.