Talk:Yellow crazy ant

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The Yellow Crazy Ant's supercolonies reminds me about the news reports about the one in spain and the reasoning how it could be possible. Report about super ant colony in spain from BCC news
Super ant colony ant in spain (google search
An example from the BBC article: The supercolonies possibly form because the ants are related and so excrete the same feromones and thus can form huge colonies.
Conclucsion that I take is that the Crazy Ants colonies formed from just a few queens

Yes, judging from the fact that this is an accidentally introduced species, supercolonies are probably an example of the founder effect. The same principle is thought to be responsible for supercolonies of ants in Australia and wasps in new Zealand. I've edited the article accordingly to remove the term 'adapted'. --Townmouse 23:09, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Evidently not a founder effect. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0418_020418_TVantcolony_2.html 'A possible explanation was that the entire supercolony arose from a very small number of founders, which would mean that the ants within the colony are genetically very similar—hence their surprising tolerance of ants from distant nests. But this did not prove to be true. A genetic analysis done by Keller's team revealed that the European Argentine ants are a diverse lot. "It's a very nice piece of work," says Kenneth Ross, an entomologist from the University of Georgia, in Athens. "Keller and his colleagues collected a huge number of samples, tested many genetic markers and proved that this tolerance is not due to these ants being closely related."' Davidweman 00:15, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] merged from Crazy Ant

Both referred to the same species. Merged to the article with the more specific name. Shyamal 03:38, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] redirect and possible note for inclusion

these ants which are rampaging through TX, USA right now recently shorted out a circuit board at some science center. Some worry about HOuston space center.

SHould we include that if I can find the source and stuff?

Also how about a "crazy ants" redirect.

[edit] Size?

Mention how big they are. Also be consistant with upper/lower case: don't say Crazy Ant, or Crazy ant, probably. Jidanni 23:58, 9 July 2007 (UTC)