Red Imported Fire Ant Foraging in a Greenhouse
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 6 (3) , 416-418
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/6.3.416
Abstract
Solenopsis invicta Buren workers retrieved greenhouse whiteflies [ Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood)], annelids, sowbugs, mites, springtails, and scale insects. An estimated 15,408 immature and 2588 adult T. vaporariorum /day were removed from Lantana camara plants by S. invicta . Mean rates of movement of ants on the foraging trail ranged 1.96–2.31 cm/sec., and speeds of host-carrying and non-host-carrying ants were not significantly different. Foraging activity was maintained 24 h/day.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: