VIDEO: See how yellow crazy ants earned their name.

Video: 1:24 min. – Watch as yellow crazy ants pile into mats, or scatter.

To really understand why yellow crazy ants are so destructive to a locality, far more than such invasive ant species as the Argentine ant which has invaded California, it is informative to observe their unique behavior.

We’ve all seen ants follow a trail, in a perfect line, leading to a food source. We’ve seen ants carry morsels of food back along that established ant trail to a hole in the ground.

But neat lines are not for the yellow crazy ant, as you will see in this video.

Visit the next page to see how yellow crazy ants form mats that split into rafts which travel down a waterway.