# Crazy Ants Wiping Out Christmas Island Crabs

![](http://spine.cx/~sdinn/fark/crab.jpg)SYDNEY (Reuters) - "Crazy Ants" are devouring the famous migrating land crabs of Australia's Christmas Island and may have killed off up to half the crab population in the past few years, a conservation official said on Wednesday.   
  
[http://reuters.com/news\_article.jhtml?type=sciencenews&StoryID=794482](http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=sciencenews&StoryID=794482)  
  
Yes, they're actually called "crazy ants". (In case anybody didn't realize, Christmas Island is where .cx domains come from) *Originally posted on Wednesday, 2002-04-10 at 13:36:11.*