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Belonging to the Anoplolepis gracilipes Family. These are small, dark gray to black ants that are easily recognized by their extremely long legs and antennae. Crazy ants get their name from their habit of running about very erratically with no apparent sense of direction. Colonies most often can be found living in soil, under items such as logs, stones, landscape timbers, wood, debris and above-ground swimming pools. Crazy ants feed on a wide variety of foods, including other insects, grease and sweets. They have been known to feed on the larvae of fleas and flies, and also have been observed carrying away fire ant queens immediately after a swarm.
Size: total length around 4 mm.
Colour: body colour yellow, gaster brownish to greenish.
Surface sculpture: head and body mostly with inconspicuous sculpture; appearing more or less smooth and shining.
General description: head oval, antennae and legs remarkably long. Antennae 11-segmented, each segment longer than wide; scapes twice as long as the length of the head, or longer. Eyes relatively large and protruding. Mandibles each with 8 teeth. Clypeus protruding medially, with convex anterior margin; without longitudinal carinae. Alitrunk slender; pronotum narrow, with almost straight dorsum in profile. Anterior portion of mesonotal dorsum, back to the propodeum, gently concave in profile; metanotal groove absent. Propodeum without spines, propodeal dorsum convex in profile. One node (petiole) present; thick, with an inverted-U-shaped crest. Erect hairs present on head and gaster, lacking on dorsum of mesosoma. Stinger absent; acidopore present.
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