A typicalFire antcolony produces large mounds in open areas, and feeds primarily on young plants and seeds. Fire ants often attack small animals and can kill them. Unlike many other ants, which bite and then spray formic acid on the wound, Fire ants only bite to get a grip and then sti...
many studies have focused on the factors that affect food transport process of this pest, which may bring useful insights to develop fire ant baiting technologies. For example, Hooper-Buiet al.29reported thatS. invictaremoved significantly more bait particles with sizes >2000 μm as compared to ...
“Where one ant uses its defensive chemistry to detoxify the venom of another ant, it is unique to our knowledge,” says Edward LeBrun, a researcher at the University of Texas who led the study. “It certainly opens up the question to look for it now.” Both fire an...
Wood ants produce a potent antimicrobial agent by applying formic acid on tree-collected resin Ecol Evol (2017) D.B.D. Carvalho et al. Fire ant venom alkaloids inhibit biofilm formation Toxins (Basel) (2019)View more references Cited by (7) High sensitivity I-beam shaped polarization related...
Repellent effect of formic acid against the red imported fire ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): A field study 2016, Journal of Economic Entomology Individual and Cooperative Food Transport of the Red Imported Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Laboratory Observations 2016, Journal of Insect Behavior Mole...
N. fulva does not seem unique in terms of the chemistry of its defensive secretion as compared to other formicine ants. However,this ant contained more than two orders of magnitude of formic acid (wt/wt) than other formicine ants and one order of magnitude of 2-tridecanone than the ...
Provides information on dealing with red imported fire ants. Behavior of fire ants; Most cost-effective way to eliminate fire ants, according to Bastiaan Drees of the Texas Imported Fire Ant Research Center in College Station, Texas; Primary consideration regarding remedies for killing fire antsDOI...
Semenov, ignoring the temperature differences within the reacting gas mixtures, assumed a uniform temperature profile, neglected the reactant consumption and supposed that chemical reaction followed the Arrhenius temperature dependence. The Frank-Kamenetskii model incorporates the conduction from the material...
N. fulva does not seem unique in terms of the chemistry of its defensive secretion as compared to other formicine ants. However, this ant contained more than two orders of magnitude of formic acid (wt/wt) than other formicine ants and one order of magnitude of 2-tridecanone than the ...
Fire ants are a genus of nearly 200 species of ants that occur in tropical regions of the world, such as Central and South America, and in some temperate regions, such as North America. The best-known member of the genus, the red imported fire ant, was a