'Crazy rasberry ants,' size of fleas, wreaking havoc across Texas

The New York Daily News ^ | May 14th 2008

[chuckles]

Well, we like to say roaches live in the house and water bugs come in from the outside. Roaches are a sign of a dirty house and water bugs are inevitable.

But when you live here awhile you have roaches and cockroaches. The cockroaches are of course the water bugs. If you live here long enough, the cockroaches evolve into "La Cucaracha". Then we try to deport them.

[Phyllo]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......Rasberry!

[naturalized]

Beats Crazy Ivan ants from Russia ;-)

[Kimmers]

I heard them referred to as water bugs as well......it’s a roach....

[Eaker]

They have been here for years but I have not seen swarms. They do scramble around like, no better word, crazy.

I have a puppy that chews thru charged electrical wires so a few ants ain’t no thang.

[weegee]

Maybe we can start a rumor that these ants are bad for fluorescent light bulbs.

[Rebelbase]

I used to catch those suckers as a kid and toss them in my hamster’s Habitrail. They’d crawl through the tubes and once the hamster caught the scent the chase was on ending in a frenzied rodent attack and crispy roach snack.

[Kimmers]

Cool....... I could see the fun in that....

[PAR35]

Dallas roaches are small. If you want large ones, move to Louisiana or Mississippi.

[deport]