Laboratory study of predation by Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on eggs of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae).
The red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren, punctured and fed on the Asian Tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Skuse), eggs in the laboratory. The presence and actions of the ants, especially the minima workers, reduced the hatching of egg populations.
Burnham
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KD
Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798.
Baldridge
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RS
Duhrkopf
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Vodopich
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D000330:Aedes; D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D010063:Ovum; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011235:Predatory Behavior