An experimental study of colony-founding in pine saplings by queens of the arboreal ant, Crematogaster ashmeadi

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-44

  Baldacci, J ^a   Tschinkel, W R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest entomology; Formicidae; Haplometrosis; Picioides borealis; Pinus palustris

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COLONY ESTABLISHMENT; QUEEN;

CREMATOGASTER ASHMEADI; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0032912291     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000400050110     Document Type: Article

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