I lived in Mississippi once and found out that fire ants are electrically conductive. The moved into one of the ground transformer boxes and before you know it, enough of them bridged the three phase power on the 5200 volt side and everything blew up with a arc welding flare, blew the top off and shut down the whole neighborhood.
Power company guy says that between fire ants and squirrels, they stay pretty busy.
So, how about the conductivity of a bug?
Could a bug have shorted out the contacts and set it off?
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