Word: ant
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...really know: it’s a catch twenty-two. Part of Harvard’s value comes from its fame, so to bar tourists would be, in a sense, to bite the hand that feeds. At the same time, this isn’t an ant-farm, it’s a university. So someone in University Hall, please do something. Brian J. Rosenberg ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a History and Science concentrator in Lowell House...
...which he spends a month living on the minimum wage (along with Jamieson, now his fiancé). The experience is as rough on their relationship as Super Size Me was on his waistline. They set off jauntily, she getting a job busing tables, he doing manual labor. One ant-infested apartment and many rice-and-beans dinners later, they're fighting over everything from bus money to splurging on a dollar movie. They scrimp, but a couple of minor illnesses wipe out their savings. "It's a life-size game of Chutes and Ladders," says Spurlock. "Somebody gets sick, and Daddy...
...Killer Fly Instead of spraying another kumquat tree with insecticide, Taiwan and Hong Kong could consider turning to Florida for an eco-friendly way to fight their recent invasion of fire ants. The Sunshine State's weapon: the PHORID FLY. Phorid larvae, almost invisible to the naked eye, burrow into the ant's head, grow and eventually decapitate it. The flies themselves are harmless to humans and animals...
...sounds like something out of a bad horror movie. Swarms of imported red fire ants?Brazilian insects with scarlet armor and a burning sting?have run rampant in parts of the United States, Australia and Taiwan, consuming small birds, felling livestock, and leaving painful welts on any human skin they contact. Its Latin species name, invicta, means invincible, and so far no affected country has managed to eradicate an infestation of the 2- to 6-mm-long ant. "I hate them," says Keith McCubbin, director of the Queensland Fire Ant Control Centre, which is spending $136 million...
...with any problem affecting Hong Kong, the mainland and Taiwan?which in October discovered it too had fire ants?fingers were inevitably pointed. Hong Kong officials complained that Guangdong authorities had left them in the dark; mainland farmers blamed Taiwan for foisting the little terrors on them in the first place, likely stowed away in shipments of recyclable trash. For Hong Kong, news of a fire ant invasion on the eve of the high-traffic Lunar New Year holiday was received with dismay, especially since it meant canceling shipments of traditional holiday plants from the mainland. The city's Health...