Engadget: Houston overrun by electronics-killing ants

They're hideous! Look at them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSUa9VsOqBo

Um... you guys are elitist jerks.Cormans films are good,lurid,campy fun. He eeven made a few great films.The Poe films of the mid 60's with dear old Vincent Price,Boxcar Bertha(Scorsese's first picture)is priceless. I think Frankenstein Unbound is one of the best of the Frankenstein canon. If you cant have a good laugh WITH NOT AT, a film like Death Race 2000(having fun and luaghing with a cheezy movie is a good life affirming experience....looking down your nose at stuff you could never pull off is lame) I would classify you as an uptight assh*&e. Are you really trying to tell me Jurrasic Park is really a better film than Carnosaur?? Why? Because it has better illusions done by my machines?? Is Titanic not a piece of maudlin horse puckey because of its production value? The mere fact he was in Hollywood but outside the studio system completley,yet VERY successful should be some sort of inspiration to every indie promoter/film-maker/publisher/punk rock band....you name it. Fact: Wasp Woman is at least entertaining as craptaculer camp.....WITH MONSTERS!!! You losers probably watch CSI and use dick&ead phrases like "guilty pleasure" I feel no more guilt for wanting to watch monsters eat people than I do for doing drugs or having casual sex. Up yours you snobs!

Bug zapper.

I think the movie that is being referred to is the classic by Saul Bass. It was named Phase IV. It made my skin crawl as a kid.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=d3RFjpN6vbo

This is why I live in Vermont. So cold those ants will not live although they might decide to build warming huts.

Here is an idea, lets take a bunch of these let them multiply and drop them over IRAN. Far better than a war.

It's funny that I live in Houston and I only first heard about this on engadget and now here. Fortunately, I live on the other side of town from the infestation, and hopefully they'll find the right poison before they spread this far.

did anybody think of feeding these pesky raspberry ants raspberries

This is no laughing matter. What happens if these things get in the space shuttle and do some damage?

The link to Roger Corman is broken -- it should go to mst3kinfo.com. That's the only non-fatal way to watch a Roger Corman film. :)

I wonder if the ants are here to provide backup to the killer bees.

And as I just discovered this week...if you have a laptop covered under your Renter's or Homeowner's policy, that's ONLY while it's in the house. You'll need a Personal Articles policy to cover it while you have it out and about.