Anoplolepis gracilipes

The yellow crazy ant is one of the world's most ecologically damaging invasive species. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

A yellow crazy ant with worker cocoons in the brood nest. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

A yellow crazy ant worker transports a cocoon. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

A yellow crazy ant collects honeydew from sugarcane whiteflies. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

A yellow crazy ant worker tends sugarcane whiteflies (Aleyrodidae) for honeydew. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

A yellow crazy ant collects a droplet of honeydew from whiteflies. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Lori Lach

Myrmecologist Lori Lach and the horror of the yellow crazy ant invasion of tropical Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

Portrait of one of the world's most damaging invasive ants, the yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

Portrait of one of the world's most damaging invasive insects, the yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

Portrait a yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

The abdomen of this yellow crazy ant is swollen with honeydew. Ants can store liquid food in their crop without digesting it. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

The abdomen of this yellow crazy ant is swollen with honeydew. Ants can store liquid food in their crop without digesting it. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

The abdomen of this yellow crazy ant is swollen with honeydew. Ants can store liquid food in their crop without digesting it. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

A yellow crazy ant worker tends whiteflies (Aleyrodidae) for honeydew. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

Yellow crazy ant workers tend grass aphids for honeydew. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

Yellow crazy ant workers tend aphids for honeydew. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

Yellow crazy ants tend mealybugs for honeydew in an invaded forest. The ecological relationship between ants and mealybugs may increase the dominance and spread of the ants. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

A yellow crazy ant forages on a tree trunk. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Oecophylla smaragdina & Anoplolepis gracilipes

A native green tree ant dispatches a worker of a non-native species, the yellow crazy ant, in tropical Australia. In nature such fights typically go the other way; yellow crazy ants are rapidly displacing many species of native ants. Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Anoplolepis gracilipes

The only good crazy ant is a dead crazy ant? Cairns, Queensland, Australia.