Resource partitioning among colonies of polygyne red imported fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1602-1608

  Weeks Jr , Ronald D ^a,b   Wilson, L T ^a   Vinson, S B ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging; Polygyne; Red imported fire ant; Resource partitioning; Solenopsis invicta

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY STRUCTURE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NICHE PARTITIONING;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 11144238382     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.6.1602     Document Type: Article

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