Fire ants - computer bugs

Which show? On the Beeb?

Thanks, Dave

The "queen bee" was quite impressive

This documentary reveals the awe-inspiring world of animal swarms, discovering what happens when superswarms invade people's lives and, using the latest camera techniques, going to the heart of the swarm to reveal how the creatures therein view our world.

Real-life footage from camcorders and mobile phones captures the amazing impact they can have. Killer bees mount an attack on an international football match in Costa Rica; in the US the Illinois River boils with leaping silver carp, an alien species that has hijacked the river, smashing into boats and injuring people.

In South Australia a sea of mice raids farms, consuming and destroying in their millions on a scale that defies belief. The largest swarm on Earth erupts from Lake Victoria: trillions of flies blanket villages but the locals have learnt to turn the swarm into a highly nutritious fly burger. In Rome, cameras fly alongside ten million starlings, the largest swarm in Europe. Their mesmeric waves stop many residents in their tracks, but as they roost they smother the city in tons of excrement.

One man has learnt to control the ultimate swarm. He has become their 'queen bee' with startling results, learning to control what most people fear and to understand one of the most incredible forces of nature.

-- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on

On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:59:49 +0100, N_Cook ??o??:

I purchased an Anteater for insurance against a fire ant attack on my electronics.

But won't the anteater's saliva leave conductive traces on the board? These could cause anything from minor problems to catastrophic failure.

you know what they say, aardvark never killed anybody

I don't understand BBC's iPlayer archive. There's many programs that play live on B1-B4 that aren't available for replay from the iPlayer archive.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Gives a whole new meaning to "Motoblur". (You see, slugs move slowly, and... never mind.)

Hi!

Well, the circuit didn't fail and they weren't fire ants...but...

I had a massive ants nest show up in an Optimus STA-795 stereo receiver. I noticed them moving around on the front panel, so I picked it up and WOW! Ants were pouring out of the bottom of the unit. The manual was underneath it, and they'd made some kind of a big white thing on top of it. I don't recall exactly what I did to evict them, but they never came back again.

William

On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:44:03 -0700, William Sommerwerck ??o??:

If you would have just Google'd 'anteater saliva' you would have seen that its saliva conforms to the RoHS directive.

;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

(And it's illegal in some places:

Some birds have even figured out that squashed ants are useful.

bugs seem to like heat, so things like vcrs were popular places for roaches to live in.

you could tell from looking at a customer at the shop if you had to open their electronics on newspapers and have a can of electronics cleaner ready to kill anything that would run off.