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Managing leaf‐cutting ants: peculiarities, trends and challenges [PDF]
Pest Management Science, 2013 Abstract Leaf‐cutting ants are generally recognized as important pest species in Neotropical America. They are eusocial insects that exhibit social organization, foraging, fungus‐cultivation, hygiene and a complex nest structure, which render their management notoriously difficult.
Terezinha M C, Della Lucia +2 more
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Leaf-cutting ant attack in initial pine plantations and growth of defoliated plants
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2012 The objective of this work was to evaluate the natural attack by Acromyrmex crassispinus in initial Pinus taeda plantations without control measures against ants, as well as the effect of defoliation in seedlings of P. taeda. Evaluations of the attack of
Mariane Aparecida Nickele +5 more
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Comparative Dating Of Attine Ant And Lepiotaceous Cultivar Phylogenies Reveals Coevolutionary Synchrony And Discord [PDF]
, 2010 The mutualistic symbiosis between fungus-gardening ants and their cultivars has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the coevolution of complex species interactions.
Abbot, Patrick +2 more
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Acta Amazonica, 2012 Este estudo investigou o papel das saúvas na recuperação da vegetação pós-fogo. Foi hipotetizado que a perturbação do fogo aumenta a abundância de ninhos de saúva (1) e as atividades de remoção de sementes (2) e desfolha (3), especialmente no ambiente de
Karine Santana Carvalho +2 more
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Colony size predicts division of labour in Attine ants [PDF]
, 2014 Division of labour is central to the ecological success of eusocial insects, yet the evolutionary factors driving increases in complexity in division of labour are little known.
Alexander RD +10 more
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, 2015 It is well stablished that danger information can be transmitted by ants through relatively small distances, provoking either a state of alarm when they move away from potentially dangerous stimulus, or charge toward it aggressively.
Altshuler, E., Reyes, A., Tejera, F.
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Trichome Removal by Hitchhikers in Two Leaf-cutting Ant Species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Sociobiology, 2014 Despite the known evidence that hitchhiker ants protect workers against attack by phorid parasitoids, several alternative hypotheses are suggested for the occurrence of hitchhikers on leaf-cutting ants. One hypothesis suggests that hitchhikers clean leaf
Leandro Sousa-Souto
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Leaf endophyte load influences fungal garden development in leaf-cutting ants
BMC Ecology, 2012 Background Previous work has shown that leaf-cutting ants prefer to cut leaf material with relatively low fungal endophyte content. This preference suggests that fungal endophytes exact a cost on the ants or on the development of their colonies.
Van Bael Sunshine A +4 more
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Waste management in the stingless bee Melipona beecheii Bennett (Hymenoptera: Apidae) [PDF]
, 2014 Waste management is important in insect societies because waste can be hazardous to adults, brood and food stores. The general organization of waste management and the influence of task partitioning, division of labor and age polyethism on waste ...
Hart, Adam G +2 more
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Levels of leaf Herbivory in Amazonian trees from different stages In forest regeneration [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 1999 Leaves from 120 canopy trees and 60 understory tree saplings growing in primary and secondary forests near Manaus, Brazil, were collected for determination of standing levels of herbivory (percent leaf area lost).
Heraldo L. VASCONCELOS
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