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Like a drop in the bucket in the fight against these type of ants. like love bugs. you can't get rid of all the love bugs. you can get them under control. >> craziest thing. hence the name, crazy ants. they get electrocuted. >> the orkin man. can i exterminate anything? >> i can't stop -- i can't get rid of that disgusting feeling. i have ants all over me right now. >> you got the willies. should have seen her, started getting the shakes. >> couldn't help it. millions of ants. piles and piles of ants. they figure out they're attracted to electronics. kept finding burned, electrocuted carcasses...

Like a drop in the bucket in the fight against these type of ants. like love bugs. you can't get rid of all the love bugs. you can get them under control. >> craziest thing. hence the name, crazy ants. they get electrocuted. >> the orkin man. can i exterminate anything? >> i can't stop -- i can't get rid of that disgusting feeling. i have ants all over me right now. >> you got the willies. should have seen her, started getting the shakes. >> couldn't help it. millions of ants. piles and piles of ants. they figure out they're attracted to electronics. kept finding burned, electrocuted carcasses...

Yes, phones. just last year, the crazy ant caused $150 million worth of damage in electronics in texas alone. yes. they go in and they eat your phone. people we spoke to think it's either the heat or the magnetic field they're attracted to. i don't know, but it seems amazing natural selection. the crazy ant squeezes inside smartphones and laptops and munches on the wiring and it's good for them for a while. sometimes they get electrocuted. when that happens, though, that's not the end of it. it may be for that one little tawny ant, but when that ant dies it lets off a stink that attracts other...

An additional three months of probation. johnson seemed to take the sentence in stride, tweeting, love me through the good and the bad, because i'm going to love you regardless, see you in 30. well, johnson was arrested last august for allegedly head butting his newlywed wife. she filed for divorce after 31 days of marriage, the miami dolphins terminated him and he didn't play. not looking good for chad ochocinco. >> thanks, pamela. ahead on "starting point," invasion of the crazy ants. how these persistent pets, there they are, are causing people in four states millions of dollars. you're w...

Ants. they are crazy invasive, crazy smart, and near crazy impossible to get rid of. >> these crazy ants are intelligent and their only mission is to find food and harborage and to save each other. they are out to protect each other. they'll do whatever it takes to thrive. >> they come from south america, launching their secret assault from brazil and argentina. >> coming from boats, planes, packages, then once they get a small little colony here, it takes nothing for them to just explode. they are so powerful, they have no natural predator. they are going into red ant colonies and displacing ...