The importance of weaver ant (Oecophylla smaragdina Fabricius) harvest to a local community in Northeastern Thailand

Asian Myrmecology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 129-138

  Sribandit, Wissanurak ^a   Wiwatwitaya, Decha ^a   Suksard, Santi ^a   Offenberg, Joachim ^b  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ant farming; Entomophagy; Ethnoentomology; Insects as food; Nakhon ratchasima; Socioeconomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; OECOPHYLLA SMARAGDINA; OECOPHYLLINI;

EID: 70349433415     PISSN: 19851944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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