Division of labor in work shifts by leaf-cutting ants [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Foraging rhythms in eusocial insects are determined by the colony´s overall pattern. However, in leaf-cutting ant workers, individual rhythms are not fully synchronized with the colonies’ rhythm.
Pedro B. Constantino +2 more
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The Symbiotic Fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus (Möller) Singer (Agaricales, Agaricaceae) as a Target Organism to Control Leaf-Cutting Ants [PDF]
Insects, 2022 Atta and Acromyrmex are the main genera of leaf-cutting ants present in North and South America, causing extensive damage to agroforestry. Control of the ants requires high handling costs with few effective methods available to decrease the losses.
Sean Araújo +10 more
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Ammonia Production by Streptomyces Symbionts of Acromyrmex Leaf-Cutting Ants Strongly Inhibits the Fungal Pathogen Escovopsis [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2021 Leaf-cutting ants live in mutualistic symbiosis with their garden fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus that can be attacked by the specialized pathogenic fungus Escovopsis.
Basanta Dhodary, Dieter Spiteller
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Isocycloseram: A new active ingredient for leaf-cutting ants control. [PDF]
PLoS ONELeaf-cutting ants are the most important pests in several cropping systems in the Neotropics. Granulated baits containing active ingredients, considered hazardous by the Stockholm Convention, are the usual method to control these ants. Isocycloseram is a
Ronald Zanetti +5 more
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Recognition of endophytic Trichoderma species by leaf-cutting ants and their potential in a Trojan-horse management strategy [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Interactions between leaf-cutting ants, their fungal symbiont (Leucoagaricus) and the endophytic fungi within the vegetation they carry into their colonies are still poorly understood.
Silma L. Rocha +8 more
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Shared Escovopsis parasites between leaf-cutting and non-leaf-cutting ants in the higher attine fungus-growing ant symbiosis [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Fungus-gardening (attine) ants grow fungus for food in protected gardens, which contain beneficial, auxiliary microbes, but also microbes harmful to gardens.
Lucas A. Meirelles +5 more
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Three phylogenetically distinct and culturable diazotrophs are perennial symbionts of leaf-cutting ants. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2021 The obligate mutualistic basidiomycete fungus, Leucocoprinus gongylophorus, mediates nutrition of leaf‐cutting ants with carbons from vegetal matter. In addition, diazotrophic Enterobacteriales in the fungus garden and intestinal Rhizobiales supposedly ...
Zani ROA, Ferro M, Bacci M.
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Leaf-cutting ants' critical and voluntary thermal limits show complex responses to size, heating rates, hydration level, and humidity. [PDF]
J Comp Physiol B, 2022 Thermal variation has complex effects on organisms and they respond to these effects through combined behavioral and physiological mechanisms. However, it is less clear how these traits combine in response to changes in body condition (e.g., size ...
Lima C, Helene AF, Camacho A.
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Queen loss increases worker survival in leaf-cutting ants under paraquat-induced oxidative stress. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Longevity is traded off with fecundity in most solitary species, but the two traits are positively linked in social insects. In ants, the most fecund individuals (queens and kings) live longer than the non-reproductive individuals, the workers.
Majoe M +3 more
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Effects of Entomopathogenic Fungi on Individuals as Well as Groups of Workers and Immatures of Atta sexdens rubropilosa Leaf-Cutting Ants. [PDF]
Insects, 2020 Simple Summary The used active ingredient sulfluramid for toxic baits for the control of leaf-cutting ants has been included in Annex B of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
Stefanelli LEP +4 more
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