Ability of resident ants to destruct small colonies of Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 587-598

  Rao, Asha ^a   Vinson, S Bradleigh ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Forelius; Monomorium; Pheidole; S. molesta

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

FORELIUS; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MONOMORIUM; MONOMORIUM MINIMUM; MONOMORIUM PHARONIS; PHEIDOLE; PHEIDOLE DENTATA; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; SOLENOPSIS MOLESTA; TETRAMORIUM; TETRAMORIUM BICARINATUM;

EID: 10644275233     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.3.587     Document Type: Article

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