Editing Yellow crazy ant (section)

==Diet==
[[File:Anoplolepis gracilipes moving Blattidae sp. toward nest.jpg|thumb|right|''A. gracilipes'' (yellow crazy ants) moving a dead [[American cockroach]] (''Periplaneta americana'') toward their nest in [[Pohnpei]], [[Federated States of Micronesia]]]]
''A gracilipes'' has been described as a "scavenging predator" exhibiting a broad diet, a characteristic of many invasive species. It consumes a wide variety of foods, including grains, seeds, arthropods, and decaying matter such as vertebrate corpses. They have been reported to attack and dismember invertebrates such as small [[isopods]], [[myriapods]], [[molluscs]], [[arachnids]], [[land crabs]], [[earthworm]]s and insects.<ref name=o1999/>

Like all ants, ''A gracilipes'' requires a protein-rich food source for the queen to lay eggs and carbohydrates as energy for the workers. They get their carbohydrates from plant [[nectar]] and [[honeydew (secretion)|honeydew]] producing insects, especially [[scale insect]]s, [[aphid]]s, and other [[Sternorrhyncha]]. Studies indicate that crazy ants rely so much on scale insects that a scarcity of them can actually limit ant population growth.<ref name=h2002/>