Yellow crazy ants are named after their distinctive erratic, frantic, movements when disturbed.
Identifying features:
- Slender body, usually 4mm long (about half the size of a green ant)
- Long skinny leg
- Long antennae, equal to or exceeding the length of the body (11 segments in total)
- Head is longer than it is broad
- Golden-brown body, with a dark brown abdomen, sometimes striped
- Day and night time foraging (they are less active in intense heat and heavy rain)
- Spray formic acid (do not bite or sting)
- Found in large numbers
