Insects

'Crazy rasberry ants' target Texan tech (The Register)

16 May 2008

Electronics on the menu for rampaging nutter insects Texans in the Houston area are battling rampaging hordes of "voracious swarming ants" which have inexplicably developed a taste for electronic equipment, Chicago Tribune reports.…

Customs agents seize giant beetles (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

16 May 2008

Customs agents in Philadelphia seized more than two dozen potentially harmful giant beetles - some the size of a child's hand - from an overseas package after postal workers heard the insects scratching.

Giant beetles seized (The Standard-Times)

16 May 2008

PHILADELPHIA — Customs agents seized more than two dozen giant beetles — some the size of a child's hand — from an overseas package after postal workers heard the insects making scratching noises.