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)

[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)