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'Crazy Ant' Invasion

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    Millions of hairy insects invade U.S.

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-- hairy and swift sharp teeth invading America by the millions.

Sounds like a horror movie but it is unfolding in real life right now along the Gulf Coast.

These -- sized critters are extremely fast look at -- that is not fast motion photography.

Exterminators say regular pesticides are not working and some people are even even being forced to leave their home is joining us on the phone as a researcher.

At Mississippi and some illogical museum -- -- down Joseph what are these things and how did they get here.

But the crazy in there but smallish.

-- brown and that we think -- native to South America.

Although that possibly came -- from the Caribbean along the way.

We think they came in and potentially on -- -- containers on ships.

Although that's not proving yet once they're here they can -- in a variety of ways.

But you know -- hey bare toes than my -- and in cars and vehicles and welcome boom.

So there's a lot of ways they actually can -- about.

I've heard one of the problems is that -- you know Texas is in such severe drought right now there's been a lot of Haiti shifting to taxes and some of that hey maybe carrying these things that's one of the problems come.

That's exactly right up they gave their.

Evelyn that's been -- wide variety of gays and very quickly so they could easily be transported with -- pay -- And traditional and poisons don't work.

I'll -- not entirely correct.

They're actually easy to kill individually and with just about any poison that I'm aware of it is this year numbers of these things it's sort of control.

And it's our population and -- -- area.

You mean because they -- so many -- Well they're messages everywhere there are there's so many individual hand over the UK -- to kill all of the you can kill a group of Omaha and then.

Another population quickly.

Is -- Back in we have a map I believe of of the states that are seeing these things right now how quickly are they spreading.

Well -- corporate context is that about 2000 -- -- in the heat an area.

And then within the last nine years but -- now spread did at least eighteen counties -- to give you an idea if Florida there were known and early -- Iraqi doubt that it used to sit five or six counties and now they don't want any.

We just -- of the Mississippi at 2009 and one -- KKR and now we -- additional populations in Jackson County.

Do they actually bore through concrete or they just so small they can get through the little tiny crack no there it.

They don't blurted oh really pouring into -- their opportunistic investors and they'll find any natural cavity divested it or under debris or whatever.

If well.

I guess if our viewers are familiar with them the problem is already there if you live in one of those states they could be headed your way.

Now one thing they don't they don't -- and they rarely -- so they're more verdict this band where there are millions of individual workers the numbers are just so.

I'm going.

Well.

They don't look welcome to meet Joseph Miguel good to have you on thank I -- At least you know bite I think well Carolina -- -- you look at a -- out --

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