Effects of Mirex on the General Ant Fauna of a Treated Area in Louisiana

Autor:	George P. Markin, Homer L. Collins, Jerry O’neal
Rok vydání:	1974
Předmět:	Pogonomyrmex badius Ecology biology ved/biology Nylanderia Foraging ved/biology.organism_classification_rank.species biology.organism_classification Red imported fire ant Pheidole Insect Science Iridomyrmex Monomorium Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Prenolepis imparis
Zdroj:	Environmental Entomology. 3:895-898
ISSN:	1938-2936 0046-225X
DOI:	10.1093/ee/3.6.895
Popis:	The effect of a mirex bait treatment was studied on 14 common ants in Washington Parish, southeastern Louisiana. The most noticeable effect was the suppression for 1 year of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren. Reductions of 98% in the number of live mounds and 99.5% in the foraging workers occurred within 1 month of the treatment. Populations of 3 other species of ants, S. xyloni McCook, Pogonomyrmex badius (Latreille), and Monomorium minimum (Buckley), were also reduced. Three species of ants, Iridomyrmex pruinosus (Roger), I. humilus (Mayr), and Conomyrma insana (Buckley), were not adversely affected and may have benefited from the elimination of competition with the red imported fire ant. Two other species, S. Molesta (Say) and Prenolepis imparis (Say), and several genera, Camponotus spp., Nylanderia spp., Aphanogaster spp., and Pheidole spp., apparently were not directly affected either way by the bait application.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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