Insects
The inventory of the invertebrate fauna, which has several hundred collected specimens still awaiting identification, has described 14 snails, several butterflies, some 70 moths, 90 beetles, 30 spiders, one scorpion, five false scorpions and 1 amphilicid.
Introduced Insects
Honey bees, a centipede species, a cockroach species, two termite species, two fruit fly species, several species of spiders, and the giant African snail have been introduced to the Island and all are likely to occur in the Park.
53 species of ant have been introduced to the island, which is probably more than any other island in the world.
Since 1997 the population of the yellow crazy ant has exploded and has formed multi-queened supercolonies at several locations on the Island. This population explosion has major implications for the management of the Christmas Island ecosystem.
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