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To be or not to be faithful: flexible fidelity to foraging trails in the leaf‐cutting ant Acromyrmex lobicornis

open access: yesEcological Entomology, 2012
1. Ants using trails to forage have to select between two alternative routes at bifurcations, using two, potentially conflicting, sources of information to make their decision: individual experience to return to a previous successful foraging site (i.e. fidelity) and ant traffic.
Elizalde, Luciana   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Foraging activity patterns and nest size of Acromyrmex lobicornis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in an urban zone of San Luis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Diversos factores pueden influir sobre la actividad de forrajeo de las hormigas cortadoras de hojas. Sin embargo, los factores climáticos, especialmente la temperatura, puede ser considerada uno de los más importantes en regiones templadas.
Jofre, Laura Elizabeth   +1 more
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Not dear neighbours: Antennation and jerking, but not aggression, correlate with genetic relatedness and spatial distance in the ant Lasius niger

open access: yesEcological Entomology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 166-179, April 2024.
Diadic interactions between Lasius niger workers from colonies at different distances. Aggressive interactions do not correlate with relatedness or spatial distance. Jerking and antennation are lower between less related ants and ants from more spatially distant colonies.
Tomer J. Czaczkes   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluación de una técnica de protección física en el éxito de establecimiento de dos especies leñosas nativas en zonas con hormigas cortadoras

open access: yesBoletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica, 2021
Introducción y objetivos: La restauración de bosques en sitios degradados por actividades antrópicas es una actividad importante en el manejo de sistemas montanos.
Julian Arriaga   +2 more
doaj  

Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Santa Fe province, Argentina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
El presente trabajo pretende aportar una lista faunística actualizada de las subfamilias, tribus, géneros y especies de hormigas de la provincia de Santa Fe, Argentina.
Cuezzo, Fabiana del Carmen   +1 more
core  

Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Argentine Mesopotamia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Este estudio describe la diversidad de hormigas de la Mesopotamia Argentina y su distribución geográfica. El grupo de las hormigas se destaca por su alta biomasa, diversidad, dominancia numérica e importancia ecológica.
Vittar, Fernando
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Densidade e tamanho de formigueiros de Acromyrmex crassispinus em plantios de Pinus taeda. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a densidade e o tamanho dos formigueiros de Acromyrmex crassispinus, ao longo do ano, em plantios de Pinus taeda de diferentes idades.
IEDE, E. T.   +3 more
core  

Plant odors trigger clearing behavior in foraging trails: do they represent olfactory obstacles? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Foraging trails of leaf-cutting ants may be exposed to plant material that interferes with foragers’ flux either by physically blocking it or due to secondary metabolites which affect insect behavior. We hypothesized that plant secondary metabolites such
Alma, Andrea Marina, Buteler, Micaela
core   +1 more source

TRICHODERMA SPECIES ASSOCIATED WITH ACROMYRMEX ANT NESTS FROM ARGENTINA AND FIRST REPORT OF TRICHODERMA LENTIFORME FOR THE COUNTRY

open access: yesDarwiniana, 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   +2 more
doaj  

Leaf-cutting ant attack in initial pine plantations and growth of defoliated plants. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The objective of this work was to evaluate the natural attack by Acromyrmex crassispinus in initial Pinus taeda plantations without control measures against ants, as well as the effect of defoliation in seedlings of P. taeda. Evaluations of the attack of
CALDATO, N.   +5 more
core  

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