Another Honeybee Update

Honeybees face new threat in Texas:

"Crazy" ants

Viruses, grueling journeys, monoculture diets. U.S. honeybees have had it rough lately, and millions have perished from the mysterious colony collapse disorder (CCD). But now some of the nation's bees have a new threat to contend with: ants. And not just any ants.

These ants are crazy—Rasberry crazy ants (Paratrenicha species near pubens), to be precise. 

Named for their helter-skelter scamper, which contrasts with most ants' standard rank-and-file march, the tiny invasive ants were first noticed in near Houston, Texas, in 2002 and have been destroying electronics, pestering picnickers and gunking up sewage pumps ever since. And now they have started to go after local honeybee hives, according to a recent Associated Press report. 



Beekeepers say the omnivorous ants swarming the hives appear to be less interested in the sweet honey inside than they are in the bee larvae there. And once a hive is decimated, the ants will take over and use it to raise their own young. One beekeeper reported that the ants had destroyed about 100 of his hives in the past year. Aside from the crops they help to pollinate, the bees also produce about 4.9 million pounds of honey a year. 

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It seems that because the nations are so upset about the little Jewish people living in their Homeland, and they are so upset about so-called Settlements, the world itself is becoming upset, and the natural way of the Earth is becoming unsettled [earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, tornados, food-chain imbalance [fishes, ants, bees, bears, birds dive-bombing people]

Tiny Ants Terrorize Texans

MESSING WITH TEXAS: The Texas Department of Agriculture is working with researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to halt the advance of a new species of ant that is ruining pumps at sewage stations, fouling computers, and causing the malfunction of fire alarms.

The Texas Department of Agriculture is working with researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop the ants, which, along with biting humans, feed on other insects (including the beloved ladybug) and even eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered grouse called the Atwater prairie chicken. More about Tiny Ants .