Chemical control of leaf-cutting ants: how do workers disperse toxic bait fragments onto fungus garden?
Rev. bras. entomol
; Rev. bras. entomol;63(4): 290-295, Out.-Dec. 2019. graf
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ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT Leaf-cutting ants are controlled with toxic baits. For the method's greater efficiency, the baits must be distributed and processed by workers during fungus cultivation. To test hypotheses whether the mode of action of the active ingredients, which blocks the sodium channels and interrupts the production of ATP in the mitochondria, interferes with fragment distribution in nests; the dispersion of pellets fragments during fungus cultivation by workers was assessed, spatially referencing the fragment onto the fungus garden. Pellets fragments were randomly distributed, but the amount pellets fragments was influenced by the way that the active ingredient acts in the colony.
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Rev. bras. entomol
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BIOLOGIA
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2019
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