Of the nonnative animals crawling, buzzing and slithering across the American South, very few are officially designated "crazy."
The crazy ant is an exception. When a Texas exterminator, Tom Rasberry, spotted ants moving in an erratic swarm in 2002, the strange insects took his name: Rasberry crazy ants. A decade later, after biologists completed the species' taxonomic identification, they renamed the ant in Latin Nylanderia fulva. In English, they dropped the Rasberry but kept the crazy, and now the tawny crazy ant marches across Texas.
These 'crazy ants' love to munch on cellphones and TVs. Are they headed your way? | Miami Herald
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