> Wait what? How/why are ants attracted to electronics? It's an open question. During the (later cancelled) Superconducting Supercollider project in Texas, ant

> Wait what? How/why are ants attracted to electronics? It's an open question. During the (later cancelled) Superconducting Supercollider project in Texas, ants kept invading and eating the insulation off the cables: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/15/us/fire-ants-to-make-building-of-atom-smasher-no-picnic.html http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/15/us/fire-ants-to-make-build... (1988) Quote: "Researchers who hope to study the secrets of nature at the Government's planned $4.4 billion atom smasher may first need protection from a venomous ant with a penchant for munching its way through underground cables."