{"id":916,"date":"2017-01-01T18:39:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T10:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/?p=916"},"modified":"2017-01-01T18:39:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T10:39:45","slug":"crazy-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/crazy-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crazy-ant-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-917\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crazy-ant-01-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crazy-ant-01-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crazy-ant-01.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Originating from the Southeast regions of US, these extraordinary ants known as Rasberry (or Tawny) Crazy Ants, are one of the weirdest species in the ant world.\u00a0 Their existence is not only\u00a0a nightmare to humans but they also pose mortal dangers to other ant species as well.\u00a0 They\u00a0earn the term &#8220;Crazy&#8221;\u00a0because they are invasive, have a strange and unique appetite, plus, they are suicidal!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crazy-ant-02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-918\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crazy-ant-02-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crazy-ant-02-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crazy-ant-02.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Crazy Ants crave for something electronic other than the normal sweet stuff.\u00a0 They like to chew through electronic cables, components and any electrical circuitry.\u00a0 The craziest part is that they love to kill themselves when they eat into the live electric wiring!\u00a0 And, as they get fried, they\u00a0emit a chemical that summons\u00a0their friends to the same spot (or their dead spot) to avenge their death!\u00a0 All in all,\u00a0your computers, TVs and mobile phones are no longer safe once a swarm of these\u00a0ants attack them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crazy-ants-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.antipest.com.my\/apblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Crazy-ants-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Other than their &#8220;electrifying&#8221; attitude, they are no friends to other ant species.\u00a0 They attack and kill other ants (fire ants, in particular) and take over their nests.\u00a0 One final bad news, their reproduction is much faster than the other ant species!\u00a0 We better pray that they wouldn&#8217;t invade our homeland someday and make Malaysia their new home!<\/p>\n<pre>References:\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/listverse.com\/2013\/12\/17\/10-strange-and-mysterious-insect-behaviors\/\">http:\/\/listverse.com\/2013\/12\/17\/10-strange-and-mysterious-insect-behaviors\/<\/a>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/entnemdept.ufl.edu\/creatures\/urban\/ants\/crazy_ant.htm\">http:\/\/entnemdept.ufl.edu\/creatures\/urban\/ants\/crazy_ant.htm<\/a> (image source)\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arceneauxpest.com\/tawny-rasberry-crazy-ants\/\">http:\/\/arceneauxpest.com\/tawny-rasberry-crazy-ants\/<\/a><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originating from the Southeast regions of US, these extraordinary ants known as Rasberry (or Tawny) Crazy Ants, are one of the weirdest species in the ant world.\u00a0 Their existence is not only\u00a0a nightmare to humans but they also pose mortal &hellip; 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