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Use of a Sound-Based Vibratome by Leaf-Cutting Ants
Science, 1995Leaf-cutting ants harvest fresh vegetation that they then use as food for symbiotic fungi. When cutting leaf fragments, the ants produce high-frequency vibrations with a specialized organ located on the gaster. This stridulation behavior is synchronized with movements of the mandible, generating complex vibrations of the mandibles. The high vibrational
J, Tautz, F, Roces, B, Hölldobler
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The Economic Importance of Leaf-Cutting Ants
2019The economically important leaf-cutting ants are restricted to the genera Atta and Acromyrmex, are fungus-growing ants of the Tribe Attini and are found only in the New World. In a questionnaire survey of 27 countries, J. M. Cherrett and D. J. Peregrine reported that 47 agricultural crops suffered leaf-cutting ant damage, and a survey of the literature
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History of the Leaf-Cutting Ant Problem
2019Pest species of leaf-cutting ants are restricted to the two genera Acromyrmex and Atta and, like the whole tribe Attini to which they belong, they are confined to the New World approximately between the latitudes 33°N and 44°S. Certainly pest problems in the species-poor areas of Central and North America are much less acute than they are in the south.
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Diploid male production in a leaf‐cutting ant
Ecological Entomology, 20101. In haplodiploid social insects where males are haploid and females are diploid, inbreeding depression is expressed as the production of diploid males when homozygosity at the sex‐determining locus results in the production of diploid individuals with a male phenotype.
Armitage, S., Boomsma, J., Baer, Boris
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Interspecific aggression in leaf-cutting ants
Animal Behaviour, 1979Abstract Interspecific aggression between leaf-cutting ants is described both in the field and in the laboratory, and a species hierarchy in fighting success is postulated. As opponents get bigger, however, the dominant species takes longer to attack, until opponents are much larger when the usually dominant species is defeated.
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Aerial Baiting to Control Leaf-cutting Ants
PANS Pest Articles & News Summaries, 1972(1972). Aerial Baiting to Control Leaf-cutting Ants. PANS Pest Articles & News Summaries: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 71-74.
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Stridulation in leaf-cutting ants
Naturwissenschaften, 1993F. Roces, J. Tautz, B. H�lldobler
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