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[W]hen 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.
whoah. Scary freaky. I've just been over reading the Cortex X-files post on MeFi, then come here to read this...
Keep your blood-sucking, electricity-eating, bodies-of-their-dead rafting, multiple-queen-breeding, inexorable, relentless swarm of crazy alien ants away from meeeeeee!
I swear, I have these in my house. Not the raspberry ants, but something similar. They are probably Argentine ants. I don't know. I do know they are very difficult to control!
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