When you 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.

always knew ants were smart!

Would Beaumont be considered part of the "Houston area"?

As if we don't have enough computer bugs.

Can't they be hosed down? Won't kill them but might flush the queens out and help eradicate them.

Oh man. This is all I need.

I hope they don't come north. I wonder how they'd survive a harsh winter like we had this year.

Somebody call Dale Gribble, exterminator.

Dust your area with ground cinnamon. Ants hate the stuff and stay away from it and go somewhere else.

I just saw a little stream (thankfully) of these guys on my back porch today...they are certainly aptly named. I have no doubt that's what I saw...running around all, well, crazy.