Linepithema humile
Interactions of the invasive Linepithema humile and honeydew-producing Hemiptera
... ant Linepithema humile may be particularly suitable for understanding the effect of facilitation in extending an organisms range as it readily engages in mutualisms with many honeydew-producing ...
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Invasibility of native habitats by Argentine ants, Linepithema humile, in New Zealand
... Abstract: The Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, was found established in New Zealand in 1990. During summer 2001/2002 the spread of Argentine ants from urban environments into native habitats was ...
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Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) use adaptable transportation networks to track changes in resource quality
... The experiments described above suggest that ant trail networks are subject to path dependency when resources are removed. However, these studies investigated situations where a new resource was discovered after a trail ...
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The Species Overlap of Pachycondyla chinensis and Linepithema humile: Contributing Mechanisms and Consequences.
... L. humile within an urban office park for over a decade (Meissner and Silverman ...L. humile with occasional rapid establishment of native ant species when populations of ...L. humile are small ...
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Underlying mechanisms and ecological context of variation in exploratory behavior of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile
... Uncovering how and why animals explore their environment is fundamental for understanding population dynamics, the spread of invasive species, species interactions, etc. In social animals, individuals within a group can ...
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Interactions between the ants Linepithema humile, Tapinoma sessile and aphid mutualists
... ant, Linepithema humile (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae), can disrupt communities, by displacing local ants ...L. humile is best demonstrated through their massive super colonies, in some cases spanning ...
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Ant Ecology
... Photos: Alex Wild Plate 14 Some of the most notorious invasive ant species a the Argentine ant Linepithema humile, b the little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata, c the red imported fire ant[r] ...
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Cuticular hydrocarbons as queen adoption cues in the invasive Argentine ant
... ant, Linepithema humile (Mayr), display minimal nestmate–non-nestmate discrimination, resulting in low levels of intraspecific aggression allowing free movement of workers and queens among ...L. ...
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The scent of supercolonies: the discovery, synthesis and behavioural verification of ant colony recognition cues
... Results: Here, we report the discovery, chemical synthesis and behavioural testing of the colonymate recognition cues used by the widespread and invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile). By synthesizing ...
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Structural complexity of chemical recognition cues affects the perception of group membership in the ants Linephithema humile and Aphaenogaster cockerelli
... (Linepithema humile) and the ant Aphaenogaster ...L. humile. L. humile (subfamily Dolichoderinae) is a worldwide invader of Mediterranean-type habitats (Human and Gordon, 1999; Sanders et ...
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Relationship between the sexual and the vegetative organs in a Polygonatum humile (Liliaceae) population in a temperate forest gap
... rhizome and seed reproduction are not clearly tempor- ally separated processes, a trade-off between both repro- ductive modes might be expected, especially when plants grow under severe resource limitation (Stears 1989). ...
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Changes in resource allocation among vegetative organs during the clonal growth of Polygonatum humile (Liliaceae) grown in a temperate forest gap
... P. humile grew in a gap created to move a grave to another place (radius, 10 m) and was momentarily shaded by trees in the south ...P. humile, the herb layer was 5% in coverage and composed of Aster scaber, ...
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Toxicity of oil from Anacardium humile Saint Hill (Anacardiaceae), on Bemisia tuberculata (Bondar, 1923) (Hemipttera: Aleyrodidae) on cassava plants
... The lengthening of the juvenile phase is considered to be one of the deleterious effects of some plant products on the insects with action on the physiology. Many researchers attribute the fagoinhibitory effect and ...
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Structure and genetic diversity of Anacardium humile (Anacardiaceae): a tropical shrub.
... Eight natural A. humile populations were selected from the Cerrado biome in the North of Minas Gerais State (Figure 1). Two populations (BAL and CAT) were in a conservation unit (APA Pandeiros) (IEF - Instituto ...
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