Practice Management

And no, I do not mean from the three law schools located in the area.  We have been overcome by "crazy rasberry ants.  They are called crazy because they wander erratically instead of marching in regimented lines, and "rasberry" after Tom Rasberry, an exterminator who did battle against them early on.  (Remember the Alamo!).

They are the size of fleas.  Formally "paratrenicha species near pubens"?have spread to five Houston-area counties since they were first spotted in Texas in 2002.  They are believed to have arrived in a cargo shipment through the port of Houston, and they are believed to be the cousins of the commonly called crazy ants that are found in the Caribbean

There is good news and bad news with the ants.  The good news is they eat fire ants.  The bad news is that they are attracted to and attack electrical equipment for reasons that are not well understood by scientists.  They have fouled up computers, and they have spotted moving in on NASA's Johnson's Space Center.

They are resistant to a lot of over the counter ant killers  And, even when you these pesticides work, the survivors pile up the dead, sometimes using them as a bridge to cross safely over surfaces treated with pesticide.