Induced Effects on Red Imported Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Forager Size Ratios by Pseudacteon spp. (Diptera: Phoridae): Implications on Bait Size Selection

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1407-1416

  Reed, J J ^a   Puckett, R T ^a   Gold, R E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bait selection; fire ant; foraging; phorid fly

Indexed keywords

ANT; BAIT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PARASITOID; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PREY SELECTION; SIZE SELECTION;

DIPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; PHORIDAE; PSEUDACTEON (DIPTERAN FLY); SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANT; APPETITE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; CHEMOTAXIS; DIPTERA; HEAD; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; TEXAS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS; CHEMOTAXIS; DIPTERA; HEAD; PARTICLE SIZE; TEXAS;

EID: 84949746236     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: 19382936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvv118     Document Type: Article

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