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From:The Futurist (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedInvading fire ants, the vicious stinging insects that have devastated the U.S. South, are now moving into California. If they become established, they could cost Californians close to a billion dollars in medical...
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From:BioScience (Vol. 44, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedBrazilian fire ant populations in Puerto Rico and the southeastern states have grown considerably. However, researchers have yet to develop an effective method of pest control. A discussion of some of the studies being...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Jan Oettler 1 , * , Volker S. Schmid 1 , Niko Zankl 1 , Olivier Rey 2 , Andreas Dress 3 , 4 , Jürgen Heinze 1 Introduction The processes underlying biological decentralized organization have become...
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From:Nature (Vol. 493, Issue 7434) Peer-ReviewedOne momentous day in the early 1930s, a ship bearing stowaways docked at Mobile, Alabama. On board was a party of fire ants (Solenopsis invicta), inadvertently transported from the species' native range in South...
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From:Ecology (Vol. 79, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMany aggressive animals form territory mosaics marked by distinct boundaries. This paper describes an approach to modeling territory size and shape within mosaics based on boundary disputes among neighboring animals. The...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 5, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedEach year, a larger proportion of the Earth's surface is urbanized, and a larger proportion of the people on Earth lives in those urban areas. The everyday nature, however, that humans encounter in cities remains poorly...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 2, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe fire ant Solenopsis invicta and its close relatives display an important social polymorphism involving differences in colony queen number. Colonies are headed by either a single reproductive queen (monogyne form) or...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe importance of mutualism is receiving more attention in community ecology. In this study, the fire ant Solenopsis invicta was found to take advantage of the shelters constructed by the leaf roller Sylepta derogata to...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Walter R. Tschinkel 1,*, Joshua R. King 2 Introduction The monogyne exotic fire ant Solenopsis invicta Buren, is one of many species, both plant and animal, that is adapted to exploit ecological...
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From:Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science (Vol. 87, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract--Ants may be the most thoroughly documented group of insects inhabiting the cedar glades of the Central Basin of Tennessee with two studies conducted in the late 1930s reporting ants found in cedar glades of...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn the Found or Fly (FoF) hypothesis ant queens experience reproduction-dispersal tradeoffs such that queens with heavier abdomens are better at founding colonies but are worse flyers. We tested predictions of FoF in...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 3, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe red imported fire ant (RIFA), Solenopsis invicta, is an invasive species, accidentally introduced in the United States that can cause painful (sometimes life-threatening) stings to human, pets, and livestock. Their...
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From:The Scientist (Vol. 19, Issue 15) Peer-ReviewedLittle fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) colonies reveal an unexpected mode of reproduction. Denis Fournier, from the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, and colleagues studied the DNA of queens, workers, males and...
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From:Ecology (Vol. 78, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe examined patch use of deer mice foraging in the presence vs. the absence of red imported fire ants in a laboratory experiment. We tested the H = P + C + MOC patch use model (H, harvest rate; P, predation risk; C,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedVarious invasive ant species have negatively affected reproductive success in birds by disrupting nest site selection, incubation patterns, food supply, and by direct predation on nestlings. Impacts can be particularly...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBiotic interactions are often important in the establishment and spread of invasive species. In particular, competition between introduced and native species can strongly influence the distribution and spread of exotic...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedSusceptible individuals who have suffered painful stings caused by red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta, usually experience physical health effects such as fever, dizziness, generalized urticaria, or other...
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From:Government Computer News (Vol. 23, Issue 34)The federal government generally does not encourage programs to decapitate its enemies. The Agriculture Department, however, has introduced two species of fire ant-decapitating flies in the Southeast. Several federal...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) and the invasive European fire ant (Myrmica rubra) are both expanding throughout their sympatric range in coastal New England. Ixodes scapularis is the primary vector of the...
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From:The American Midland Naturalist (Vol. 180, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe red imported fire ant is a well-studied pest in the southern United States, but investigations of invasions in the central region are relatively rare. We compared two central Oklahoma invasions: a newly observed...