[PDF] Top 20 Daily Foraging Activity of Acromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Leaf-cutting ants

... heavier leaf cutters do not forage during the day in order to avoid diurnal parasites that preferentially attack larger ants (Wetterer, ...distribution of workers on foraging trails as a ... See full document

... dynamics of this species has never been studied in periods longer than one year in Pinus taeda ...distribution of nests over time, as well as the attack levels and the period of the first nuptial ... See full document

... attractiveness of new formulations of granulated baits used against leaf-cutting ants (Acromyrmex ...comparison of results wherever these tests are carried ... See full document

... control of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants is necessary due to the severe damage they cause to diverse ...from ants of two Acromyrmex species, to evaluate its ... See full document

... These ants have different thermal tolerance ranges that result in temporally separated foraging activities avoiding interference competition (Nobua- Behrmann et ...hand leaf-cutting ... See full document

... tion of queen ants fecundated in 2013 at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, ...composed of three plastic contain- ers (diameter: 7 cm × 15 cm × 7 cm) ... See full document

... army ants, consisting of eight genera in the subfamily Dorylinae, are known to exhibit several specific biological characters such as large colony size, group predation with several workers, nomadism, and ... See full document

... foragers, ants commonly show positive load-distance relationships in empirical ...(leaf- cutting, Roces, 1990; ...with foraging load for ants (Nielsen, Jensen & Holmjensen, 1982), ... See full document

... and leaf-cutting ants, considered important pests in the ...diversity of the specialized foraging behaviors; they have been found in extra-floral nectaries, predating insect eggs and ... See full document

... costs of foraging activity ( Traniello 1989 ). The in- fluence of these factors on foraging activity depends on the climatic characteristics of the environment inhabited ... See full document

... coexistence of more than one fertile queen in the same colony – is not a very rare event in social Hymenoptera, although it is rather uncommon among leaf-cutting ants (Attini) (DELLA ... See full document

... mL of distilled water, samples being absorbed onto filter-paper wicks which were then inserted into slots in polyacrylamide gels (see ...gynes of known genotypes were applied as controls at six different ... See full document

... evaluation of insecticidal activity over time in Atta sexdens rubropilosa workers (Hymenoptera: ...Toxicity of imidacloprid and diafenthiuron to Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens) (Neuroptera: ... See full document

... the ants as part of their agro-ecosystem and to accept their presence without unnecessary ...resilience of the agro-ecosystem as a ...this leaf-cutting species dumps as a deterrent; ... See full document

... among ants in the foraging area, selecting individuals that are cutting the ...the cutting process, and lays its egg inside the ant’s ...along foraging trails near the entrance ... See full document

... species of leaf-cutting ants as ...waste of Atta and Acromyrmex (M.) colonies concentrate species of the Escovopsis pathogenic fungus, which is harmful to the symbiont ... See full document

... examination of 249 compression fossil ant specimens from the lacustrine oil shale of the Kishenehn ...Formation. Of the 249 specimens examined, 97 of them, while assignable to the ... See full document

... 30% of the work on bioindication (Siddig et al., 2016), among them ants, which can be classified as environmental, ecological and diversity bioindicators, since they have a sensitivity to environmental ... See full document

... study of Pitts et al. [5], Ross et al. [10] demonstrated the existence of cryptic species within ...some of the other fire ant species might also include cryptic species ...all of them, thus ... See full document

... TGATA-TGC-3') and R-63 (5'-TTCCTCC GCTTATTGATATGC-3') (Invitrogen/Life Technologies). Reaction conditions included denaturation at 94ºC for 3 min followed by 30 amplification cycles of 94º, 50º, and 70ºC for 30 s ... See full document