Impact of the introduced yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes on Bird Island, Seychelles

By M. Hill, K. Holm, T. Vel, N. Shah, P. Matyot. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2003

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The ecology, policy, and management of ants in Hawaii (2005, background): “…grandis on several low coral islands in the Indian and southern Pacific Oceans have suffered dramatic tree mortality due to outbreaks of a scale, Pulvinaria urbicola Cockerell, tended by incredible densities of A. gracilipes, P. megacephala or other ants (Smith and Papacek 2001, Hill et al. 2003).”
Ecological effects of invasive alien insects (2008, background): “Similar observations were made in other parts of the world where A. gracilipes has been introduced, such as in the Seychelles, where it developed an association with scale insects resulting in tree mortality (Hill et al. 2003).”
The invasive Yellow Crazy Ant and the decline of forest ant diversity in Indonesian cacao agroforests (2008, background): “On the Seychelles, dominance by A. gracilipes threatens endemic island bird populations (Hill et al. 2003), and these islands have undergone intensive open phosphate mining prior to the current land cover by non-indigenous trees.”