Fire ants, Solenopsis invicta, dry and store insect pieces for later use

Journal of Insect Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gayahan, Glivery G ^a   Tschinkel, Walter R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dye tracers; Food drying; Food storage; Foraging; Larval feeding; Stockpile

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 45149084764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15362442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1673/031.008.3901     Document Type: Article

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