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[News Clip: Fire Ants]

open access: yes, 1959
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Dallas city health department officials inspecting a fire ant-infested ...
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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A Species delimitation approach to uncover cryptic species in the South American fire ant decapitating flies (Diptera: Phoridae: Pseudacteon).

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
South American fire ant decapitating flies in the genus Pseudacteon (Diptera: Phoridae) are potential biocontrol agents of the invasive fire ants Solenopsis invicta and S.
Andrés F Sánchez-Restrepo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE RED IMPORTED FIRE ANT ON THE METROPLEXES OF TEXAS [PDF]

open access: yes
This research estimates the annual economic impact of the fire ant on key urban sectors in Texas. A study was conducted in 1998-1999 in the 5 metroplexes of Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston to estimate the costs of controlling and ...
Lard, Curtis F.   +2 more
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A small parasitoid of fire ants, Pseudacteon obtusitus (Diptera: Phoridae): native range ecology and laboratory rearing

open access: yes, 2020
Folgarait, Patricia J., Plowes, Robert M., Gomila, Carolina, Gilbert, Lawrence E. (2020): A small parasitoid of fire ants, Pseudacteon obtusitus (Diptera: Phoridae): native range ecology and laboratory rearing. Florida Entomologist 103 (1): 9-15, DOI: 10.
Plowes, Robert M.   +3 more
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Assessing survey techniques for eastern spotted skunks: camera traps, detection dogs, and scent lures

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Experimental layout comparing 3 survey methods (tree‐mounted cameras, enclosed camera traps, and a detection dog) and 2 scent lures (rabbit urine and weasel gland paste) for detecting eastern spotted skunks (Spilogale putorius) in Florida, USA. All survey methods yielded low but similar detection probabilities.
Kendyl N. Hassler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arboreal ants use the "Velcro® principle" to capture very large prey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Plant-ants live in a mutualistic association with host plants known as "myrmecophytes" that provide them with a nesting place and sometimes with extra-floral nectar (EFN) and/or food bodies (FBs); the ants can also attend sap-sucking Hemiptera for their ...
Alain Dejean   +20 more
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The Value of Controlling Wilding Conifers in New Zealand

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Exotic, invasive conifer tree species, known as ‘wilding conifers’, pose a significant threat to natural ecosystems and are costly to manage, creating a need to identify community preferences in order to inform and balance public investment in their control.
Maksym Polyakov   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
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wiley   +1 more source

Size, Spines, and Nests: What Drives Variation in Death‐Feigning Behavior in Fungus‐Farming Ants?

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We investigated death‐feigning (DF; thanatosis) in fungus‐farming ants, testing how stimulus intensity, morphology, and nest traits shape its occurrence and duration using generalized linear mixed models. Stronger stimuli increased both likelihood and duration, but most variation was structured across species, colonies, and individuals.
Danon Clemes Cardoso   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

[News Clip: Ants]

open access: yes, 1959
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the Dallas Health Department calling an emergency meeting to outlaw the spread of fire ...
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
core  

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