Some excerpts from WRAL.com’s article:

In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.

The scary part:

Worse, they, like some other species of ants, are attracted to electrical equipment, for reasons that are not well understood by scientists.

They have ruined pumps at sewage pumping stations, fouled computers and at least one homeowner’s gas meter, and caused fire alarms to malfunction. They have been spotted at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and close to Hobby Airport, though they haven’t caused any major problems there yet.

I can just see people screaming bloody murder that this is a sign from God that we shouldn’t be exploring space…or flying, apparently.

The ants eat fire ants, and are resistant to over-the-counter ant killers, but get this:

It’s not enough just to kill the queen. Experts say each colony has multiple queens that have to be taken out.

At the same time, the ants aren’t taking the bait usually left out in traps, according to exterminators, who want the Environmental Protection Agency to loosen restrictions on the use of more powerful pesticides.

Crazy part #2:

And when you do kill these ants, the survivors turn it to their advantage: They pile up the dead, sometimes using them as a bridge to cross safely over surfaces treated with pesticide.

So…yeah. I haven’t read the Bible, and I’m not familiar with the signs of the apocalypse (or really what the apocalypse actually is…it’s the end of the world, right?), but this sure sounds like it could be one of them. And how poetic, too, that the most powerful nation on earth could potentially be crippled by something the size of a flea.

Pretty wild. Also wild: the Celtics won last night, despite Lebron’s 35. So, you know, all kinds of crazy things are happening.

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