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| Forti,Luiz Carlos; Moreira,Aldenise Alves; Camargo,Roberto da Silva; Caldato,Nadia; Castellani,Maria Aparecida. |
| ABSTRACT Atta bisphaerica is a species of grass-cutting ants commonly found in the Cerrado biome. The Brazilian Cerrado (savanna) biome covers 2 million km representing 23% of the area of the country. It is an ancient biome with rich biodiversity, estimated at 160,000 species of plants, fungi and animals. However, little is known about their nest architecture development. This study investigated the architecture of fourteen A. bisphaerica nests from Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil. Molds were made of the nests by filling them with cement to allow better visualization of internal structures such as chambers and tunnels. After excavation, the depth and dimensions (length, width, and height) of the chambers were measured. As expected, there was a lateral... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Grass-cutting ants; Nest; Social insects. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262018000100046 |
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| Boaretto,Maria Aparecida Castellani; Forti,Luiz Carlos; Lopes,Juliane Floriano Santos; Nagamoto,Nilson Satoru; Andrade,Ana Paula Protti de; Moreira,Aldenise Alves; Viana,Anselmo Eloy Silveira; Ramos,Vânia Maria. |
| Using of toxic baits made of dehydrated citric pulp to control grass-cutting ants can lead to unsatisfactory results because of the low attractiveness of the substrate to worker ants. This work aimed to identify attractive substances, with potential for incorporation in a matrix of granulated baits for grass-cutting ants, among several kinds of sugars and substances used in artificial sweeteners. Experiments were carried out in mature nests of Atta capiguara (Hym.: Formicidae) set in pasture. Studied substances were sucrose, fructose, soluble starch, raffinose, maltose, lactose, sorbose, cellobiose, arabinose, xylose, glucose, galactose, rhamnose, arabinose, melezitose, saccharine and cyclamate (at 5.0% w/v). Later, on maltose, xylose, sucrose, fructose... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Attini; Myrmicinae; Grass-cutting ants; Bait. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162003000300014 |
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