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Potential of alternative control of leaf‐cutting ants using essential oils: A systematic review

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 497-511, November 2025.
Abstract Leaf‐cutting ants (LCAs) are abundant and cause considerable damage to agricultural and forest crops in the Neotropical region and are commonly controlled using sulfluramid‐based ant baits. However, this active ingredient is a precursor of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), a persistent, human‐made pollutant that poses serious environmental
Heloisa S. S. Pinheiro, Crislaine C. Calazans, Virginia E. Masiulionis, Valfran S. Andrade, Tainara da S. Carvalho, Itamara Bomfim Gois, Genésio T. Ribeiro, Arie F. Blank, Ana P. A. Araújo, Leandro Bacci   +9 more
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Ensambles de ácaros oribátidos en hormigueros de Acromyrmex spp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Ecología Austral, 2013
Los hormigueros de varias especies de Acromyrmex presentan sobre el suelo una elevación (túmulo), que posee condiciones micro climáticas estables y ofrece un ambiente atractivo para ácaros oribátidos y otros invertebrados edáficos.
Luciano Peralta, Pablo A. Martínez
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The preference for energetic resources is positively associated with predatory activity in ants

Ecological Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 921-932, October 2025.
We found that ants exhibit a stronger preference for foraging for carbohydrates and lipids (energetic nutrients) compared to amino acids. The increase in foraging for energetic nutrients compared to amino acids is positively correlated with foraging in larvae (insect predation). The nutrient preference between foraging for energetic nutrients and amino
Icaro Wilker, Tom R. Bishop, Chaim J. Lasmar, Dara Veiga, Letícia G. Souza, Antônio C. M. Queiroz, Rodrigo M. Feitosa, Ana C. A. Neundorf, Mila F. O. Martins, Guilherme P. Alves, Luane K. Fontenele, Marília M. S. Costa, Carla R. Ribas   +12 more
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Bacterial microbiomes from vertically-transmitted fungal inocula of the leaf-cutting ant Atta texana [PDF]

, 2016
Microbiome surveys provide clues for the functional roles of symbiotic microbial communities and their hosts. In this study, we elucidated bacterial microbiomes associated with the vertically transmitted fungal inocula (pellets) used by foundress queens ...
Bacci, Maurício, Jr., de Melo Rodovalho, Cynara, Ferreira, Henrique, Mantovani, Joana D., McFrederick, Quinn S., Meirelles, Lucas A., Mueller, Ulrich G., Rodrigues, Andre   +7 more
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Whole genome shotgun phylogenomics resolve the diving beetle tree of life

Systematic Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 940-974, October 2025.
A new and strongly supported phylogeny of diving beetles (Dytiscidae) is presented using the largest genomic dataset to date. Laccophilinae and Coptotominae + Lancetinae are early diverging lineages excluded from a large monophyletic clade comprising the remaining eight subfamilies. We identify seven remaining problems in the backbone of the phylogeny,
Johannes Bergsten, Johan A. A. Nylander, Oscar E. Ospina, Alan R. Lemmon, Kelly B. Miller   +4 more
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Danos e preferência de forrageamento de formigas cortadeiras em vimeiros

Agropecuária Catarinense, 2021
Danos causados por formigas cortadeiras em vimeiros têm provocado perdas de produção e qualidade de varas para o artesanato, devido às brotações laterais que provocam.
Jamille Casa, Mari I. Carissimi Boff, Tássio Dresch Rech, Pedro Boff   +3 more
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Chemoreceptor Evolution in Hymenoptera and Its Implications for the Evolution of Eusociality. [PDF]

, 2015
Eusocial insects, mostly Hymenoptera, have evolved unique colonial lifestyles that rely on the perception of social context mainly through pheromones, and chemoreceptors are hypothesized to have played important adaptive roles in the evolution of ...
Berger, Shelley L, Liebig, Jürgen, Ray, Anandasankar, Rokas, Antonis, Zhou, Xiaofan, Zwiebel, Laurence J   +5 more
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Foraging by predatory ants: A review

Insect Science, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 1096-1118, August 2025.
This review focuses on ecological and behavioral characteristics of foraging in ants showing the wide diversity of cases. Most ants can feed on sugary substances, but some ground‐nesting species are strict predators. Except army ants during the nomadic phase, they are central‐place foragers that can recruit nestmates when necessary. They prey mostly on
Alain Dejean, Jérôme Orivel, Xim Cerdá, Frédéric Azémar, Bruno Corbara, Axel Touchard   +5 more
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TRICHODERMA SPECIES ASSOCIATED WITH ACROMYRMEX ANT NESTS FROM ARGENTINA AND FIRST REPORT OF TRICHODERMA LENTIFORME FOR THE COUNTRY

Darwiniana, 2017
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo la identificación morfológica y molecular de cinco especies de Trichoderma asociadas con los nidos de hormigas cortadoras de hojas del género Acromyrmex presentes en Argentina.
Natalia G. Armando, Jorge A. Marfetán, Patricia J. Folgarait   +2 more
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Molecular Adjustment to a Social Niche: Brain Transcriptomes Reveal Divergent Influence of Social Environment on the Two Queen Morphs of the Ant Temnothorax rugatulus

Molecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 15, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Social insects form complex societies with division of labour between different female castes. In most species, a single queen heads the colony; in others, several queens share the task of reproduction. These different social organisations are often associated with distinct queen morphologies and life‐history strategies and occur in different ...
Marah Stoldt, Matteo Antoine Negroni, Barbara Feldmeyer, Susanne Foitzik   +3 more
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