Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:33:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-04-01; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Maranhão; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); In the Neotropics, leaf-cutting ants are pests of great importance to various crop...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:36:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-02-01; Toxic baits, containing the active ingredients sulfluramid or fipronil, are the main methods to control leaf-cutting ants of the genera Atta Fabricius, 1805, and Acromyrmex Mayr, 1865 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). However, the insecticide dispersion among members of the colony during the control needs furt...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:38:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-03-01; Leaf-cutting ants forage fresh plants in the field to cultivate the symbiotic fungus in their nests. The trophallaxis rates in leaf-cutting ants may be related to liquid foraging behavior and exchanging liquid food with other ants inside the nest. The liquid foraging and liquid food exchange in laborato...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:58:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-12-24; The most common control method uses toxic baits consisted of dehydrated citrus pulp as carrier and attractant. However, the portion of the citrus fruit that is attractive to ants is still unknown, despite its importance in chemical control. This study compared the attractiveness of different fruit parts...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T21:00:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-04-14; The grass-cutting ants Atta capiguara Gonçalves, 1944 and Atta bisphaerica Forel, 1908, have great economic importance as regards pastures and various agricultural cultivations in Brazil. These are ants which are difficult control, generally rejecting toxic baits, the main control method, in the field. ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:29:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Cyphoderus innominatus Mills, 1938 (Collembola: Paronellidae) was first observed in early colonies of Atta sexdens leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The colonies were collected on February 6, 2019, from a transition area be...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:12:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-10-21; The diet of leaf-cutting ants is based on cultivation of their symbiotic fungus, whose successful cultivation depends on the task of incorporation and handling of vegetable substrate. This task may cause the workers to be contaminated with toxic substances and thus decrease the survival of the colony. T...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:12:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-12-01; The diet of leaf-cutting ants is based on cultivation of their symbiotic fungus, whose successful cultivation depends on the task of incorporation and handling of vegetable substrate. This task may cause the workers to be contaminated with toxic substances and thus decrease the survival of the colony. T...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:14:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2003-07-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); 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 p...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T06:02:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; – Chemical control using toxic baits containing the active ingredient sulfluramid at 0.3% (w/w) is the main method for controlling leaf-cutting ants of the genera Atta and Acromyrmex. However, since 2009, when sulfluramid was included in Annex B of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutan...