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Novel organic repellent for leaf-cutting ants: tea tree oil and its potential use as a management tool

International Journal of Pest Management, 2019
Leaf-cutting ants are insects of great economic importance which cause economic losses in numerous crops. Compounds that modulate behaviour, and among these natural repellents, show promise in integrated pest management strategies.
M. Buteler, A. M. Alma, M. Herrera, N. Gorosito, P. Fernández   +4 more
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Interspecific aggression in leaf-cutting ants

Animal Behaviour, 1979
Abstract 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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Appetitive and aversive learning of plants odors inside different nest compartments by foraging leaf-cutting ants.

Journal of insect physiology, 2018
Cues inside the nest provide social insect foragers with information about resources currently exploited that may influence their decisions outside.
A. Arenas, F. Roces
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Complementary effects of different predators of leaf-cutting ants: Implications for biological control

Biological control (Print), 2019
Predators that share a prey can interact negatively or positively, depending on whether there is intraguild predation or they facilitate the consumption of the shared prey.
L. Elizalde, M. Superina
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Disentangling the effects of foliar vs. floral herbivory of leaf-cutting ants on the plant reproductive success of Miconia nervosa (Smith) Triana (Family Melastomataceae)

Bulletin of entomological research, 2019
Flower and leaf herbivory might cause relevant and negative impacts on plant fitness. While flower removal or damage by florivores produces direct negative effects on plant fitness, folivores affect plant fitness by reducing resource allocation to ...
T. Câmara, X. Arnan, V. S. Barbosa, R. Wirth, L. Iannuzzi, I. Leal   +5 more
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Foraging Trails of Leaf-Cutting Ants

1978
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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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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Carbon dioxide sensing in the social context: Leaf-cutting ants prefer elevated CO2 levels to tend their brood.

Journal of insect physiology, 2018
Social insects show temperature and humidity preferences inside their nests to successfully rear brood. In underground nests, ants also encounter rising CO2 concentrations with increasing depth.
D. Römer, M. Bollazzi, F. Roces
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Territoriality in Leaf-Cutting Ants, Atta spp.

2019
According to A. R. Jutsum ants that win fights seem to learn to attack specific parts of the body, especially the petiole. The threat response of the ants was more frequent when they were residents. There are few reports of aggression in relation to territory for leaf-cutting ants.
E. F. Vilela, P. E. Howse
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The Natural History of Leaf-Cutting Ants

2003
No one can give us an exact number of animal species living on earth today, but all biologists agree that millions more species exist than the approximately 1.5 million that have been described so far. Quantitative faunistic investigations in many habitats suggest about 8 million extant species; other assessments claim 30 million species or even more ...
Rainer Wirth, Hubert Herz, Ronald J. Ryel, Wolfram Beyschlag, Bert Hölldobler   +4 more
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