Spatio-temporal population sampling of a fire ant parasitoid

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 132-141

  Henne, Donald C ^a   Hilbun, William S ^a   Johnson, Seth J ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Decapitating fly; Diptera; Formicidae; Hymenoptera; Microsporidia; Phoridae; Pseudacteon tricuspis; Red imported fire ant; SADIE; Solenopsis invicta; Thelohania solenopsae; Thelohaniidae

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANT; COLONIZATION; FLY; INVASIVE SPECIES; PARASITOID; PATCHINESS; PATHOGEN; POLYGYNY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BORGMEIER; DIPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MICROSPORIDIA; PHORIDAE; PSEUDACTEON TRICUSPIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; THELOHANIA; THELOHANIA SOLENOPSAE; THELOHANIIDAE;

EID: 53849135222     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00763.x     Document Type: Article

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