Manipulation of Red Imported Fire Ants 1 in a Trap Crop for Boll Weevil 2 Suppression
- 1 December 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 8 (6) , 1073-1077
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/8.6.1073
Abstract
Red imported fire ants were introduced into an early-planted East Texas cotton plot, while ants were essentially removed from a control plot with Mirex. In the ant plot, predation by ants reduced the number of emerging F 1 weevil adults, and weevil damaged squares never exceeded 16.6% through June and early July. During this time incidence of weevil damaged squares in the Mirex plot increased to 38.8%.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Fortuitous Biological Suppression of the Boll Weevil 1 by the Red Imported Fire Ant 23Environmental Entomology, 1978
- Population Dynamics of the Boll Weevil 1 Inhabiting the High and Rolling Plains of Texas 2Environmental Entomology, 1978