Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:55:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2003-01-01; Two species of plants commonly known as barbatimão occur in Brazil, Stryphnodendron adstringens (Fabaceae) (true barbatimão) and Dimorphandra mollis (Caesalpiniaceae) (false barbatimão). These two species have a similar flowering period and are considered by beekeepers to cause bee mortality during this...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:56:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 1998-01-01; Atta sexdens L. ants feed on the fungus they cultivate on cut leaves inside their nests. The fungus, Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, metabolizes plant polysaccharides, such as xylan, starch, pectin, and cellulose, mediating assimilation of these compounds by the ants. This metabolic integration may be an i...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T17:22:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-09-01; National Council for Scientific and Technological Development; FAPEPI (The Piaui Research Foundation); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Ministry of Education of Brazil; Bacteria of the genus Wolbachia are widely distributed in arthropods, particularly in ants; neverth...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:37:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; In this work was described the phytochemical investigation of Machaerium opacum Vogel (Fabaceae) leaves as well as the insecticidal activity of its crude extract and fractions against Atta sexdens Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The phytochemical study led to the identification of α-amyrin, β-amyrin...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:41:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-01-01; In this study, we compared the richness of ground-dwelling ants among three different sugarcane management systems (with the application of the insecticide fipronil and the addition of vinasse; with fipronil and no vinasse; and with vinasse and no fipronil, i.e., an organic production system) to evaluat...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:45:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 1979-01-01; Worker pupae of Apis mellifera ligustica and A. m. adansonii (330 of each) were dissected, and their ovaries excised. For each race, the mean number of ovarioles in the right and left ovaries were significantly different; in both, the left ovary had more ovarioles than the right. Significant differences...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:48:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-02-16; Here we report the frequent occurrence of Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas) (Araneae; Theridiidae) immature spiders inside laboratory colonies of various ant species. It was the only spider species frequently found to invade the ant colonies in our laboratory. The spiders were capable of killing ant workers of...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T20:55:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-10-01; The weaver ants Camponotus textor (Forel) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are native to Central and South America, where they use their larvae to build silken nests by sewing tree leaves together. Few studies have been conducted with this species, and little is known about the morphology of their larvae. The ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T21:01:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-06-14; The ant Paratrechina fulva is native to Brazil, but has spread to other countries where it has become a serious pest. Their larvae are known from a preliminary description made without the aid of scanning electron microscopy. The present investigation aimed at describing the mature worker larvae of this...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T21:21:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-06-01; Camponotus vittatus Forel is a poorly studied Neotropical ant, which is very common in Brazil. Larval descriptions are useful to systematics, as larval characters aid with genus-level differentiation, and ant larvae lie at the basis of ant social organization. This study presents the first description o...