Repellent Effects of Five Plant Essential Oils on the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invcita

Autor: Yi-Juan Xu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Sociobiology, Vol 59, Iss 3 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0361-6525
2447-8067
DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v59i3.890
Popis: The aim of this experiment was to search for the essential oils which have repellent effects on red imported fire ants. Effect of five kinds of essential oils in four concentrations on fire ant workers was evaluated using a Y-tube olfactometer bioassay. Our results indicate that C. annuum oil showed a strong repellent effect on fire ant workers in the four concentrations (P
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