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Leaf cutting-ants: Control methods and sustainability
, 2022 The fungus-growing ants belong to the genus Atta and Acromyrmex and individuals are causing serious damage to various types of plantations due to the habit of cutting leaves and shoots of economic importance for use in cultivating the garden symbiotic fungus colonies, causing serious damage. The ants attack is harmful at any stage of the cycle, but the
Ortiz, Gabriela +1 more
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Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.The height at which epiphytic bromeliads are found affects the invertebrate community composition within them. The size of epiphytic bromeliads is positively correlated with species richness of both aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates. Whether bromeliads were found in primary or secondary forest did not have a significant effect on the community of ...
Xaali O'Reilly‐Berkeley +6 more
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Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.Extrafloral nectar mediates interactions among plants, ants and herbivores; its contingency on damage amount and within‐plant uniformity is poorly understood. Here, we explore these factors in wild cotton (Gossypium hirsutum). Herbivory amount drove increases in extrafloral nectar induction per nectary, whereas within‐plant variability in damage ...
Víctor Hugo Ramírez‐Delgado +8 more
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Factors influencing microbial activity in dumps leaf cutter ants [PDF]
, 2014 La descomposición de la materia orgánica que realizan los microorganismos del suelo es vital para el funcionamiento de los ecosistemas terrestres. Nosotros usamos a los basureros de las hormigas cortadoras de hojas como un sistema modelo para determinar ...
Farji Brener, Alejandro Gustavo +2 more
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An Easy Method to Sample Headspace Pheromones in the Field
Ethology, EarlyView.Females of the orb‐web spider Argiope bruennichi produces a pheromone to attract males for mating. Most of our knowledge about the pheromone and its strategical use by the females is known from the laboratory. While we have confidence in the validity of these results, we wanted to make sure and measure pheromones in the field.
Zoe Dössel +2 more
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Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.Diverse Saturniidae moth communities are found in naturally recovering tropical forests in Ecuador. Community composition showed a gradual turnover with strongest differences between old‐growth forest and active agriculture, but only weak differences in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity. While our results suggest that Saturniidae are not
Sebastian Seibold +15 more
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Diversity, prevalence and virulence of fungal entomopathogens in colonies of the ant Formica selysi [PDF]
, 2018 The richness of the parasitic community associated with social insect colonies has rarely been investigated. Moreover, understanding how hosts and pathogens interact in nature is important to interpret results from laboratory experiments.
Chapuisat, M., Reber, A.
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Larger bites of leaf-cutting ants [PDF]
Nature, 1995 Flavio Roces, John R. B. Lighten
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International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.Abstract The application of automated ground vehicles (AGVs) is well‐established in closed environments such as port terminals, while their operation in open areas remains challenging. In this work, we set out to overcome this limitation by introducing platooning as a transfer mode in heterogeneous vehicle networks.
Nadia Pourmohammad‐Zia +2 more
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Brazilian Journal of BiologyThe control of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants is necessary due to the severe damage they cause to diverse crops. A possibility was to control them using the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that characteristically produces insecticidal crystal ...
L. M. N. Pinto +3 more
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