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Provedor de dados: | Ciência Rural
País: | Brazil
Título: | Attractiveness of copperleaf-based bait to leaf-cutting ants
Autores: | Nagamoto,Nilson Satoru; Barbieri,Rafael Forti; Forti,Luiz Carlos; Cardoso,Sandra Regina de Sousa; Moreira,Sinara Maria; Lopes,Juliane Floriano Santos.
Data: | 2011-06-01
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Toxic bait; Acalypha wilkesiana; Euphorbiaceae; Formicidae; Leaf-cutting ant.
Resumo: | Leaves of copperleaf (Acalypha spp.) are greatly accepted by leaf-cutting ants and therefore used to maintain colonies in the laboratory. In order to determine the attractive potential of granulated bait of Acalypha wilkesiana leaves versus citrus pulp, currently used in commercial baits, an evaluation was performed, by using the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa as model. The handmade non-toxic baits contained powder (90% w/w) of either citrus pulp or A. wilkesiana were offered simultaneously in the foraging arena until the total loading of one of them. Results showed that copperleaf baits are less attractive than the citrus ones, which invalidates the viability of the substitution.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782011000600002
Editor: | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Relação: | 10.1590/S0103-84782011005000070
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Ciência Rural  v.41 n.6 2011
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess