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Concentrates Against Stored Product Pests G Ready-To-Use Insecticides
BÁBOLNA BIO Phone: +361 43-20-461, Fax: +361 43-20-401, e-mail: [email protected] CONTENTSCONTENTS INTRODUCTION RODENTICIDES G READY-TO-USE BAITS, PELLETS, WAX BLOCKS BAITING STATIONS FOR RODENT CONTROL INSECTICIDES G CONCENTRATES FOR CRAWLING INSECT CONTROL G IGR BASED CONCENTRATES ❍ FOR COCKROACH AND STORED PRODUCT PEST CONTROL ❍ FOR FLEA, STORED PRODUCT PEST AND MOSQUITO CONTROL ❍ FOR ECTOPARASITE CONTROL G CONCENTRATES AGAINST STORED PRODUCT PESTS G READY-TO-USE INSECTICIDES PESTICIDE SMOKE PRODUCTS TRAPS PHEROMONE TRAPS FOR AGRICULTURAL USE PHEROMONES FOR MONITORING FOR AGRICULTURAL USE BIRD CONTROL DEVICES SPRAYERS EQUIPMENT FOR MOSQUITO CONTROL PRODUCTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT BÁBOLNA BIO Phone: +361 43-20-461, Fax: +361 43-20-401, e-mail: [email protected] INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION The activities of Bábolna Bioenvironmental Centre look back to a past of more than 30 years. During this period of time the company has gained a leading role in the field of large scale pest control as well as in the production and sales of public health and household pest control products. The most outstanding success in the life of the company was the total deratization project of the city of Budapest and the maintenance of the rat-free state for 30 years now. The successful cockroach control carried out in 145,000 flats in housing estates can be considered as another outstanding result. To develop and manufacture up-to-date and efficient pest control products, BÁBOLNA BIO has established its own research and development laboratories, insecticide and rodenticide production and packaging plant. Besides the traditional formulations, the company gives high priority to the production of insecticide-free and pheromone insect traps. -
Social Foraging in Temnothorax Ants by Zachary Shaffer A
The Wisdom of the Acorn: Social Foraging in Temnothorax Ants by Zachary Shaffer A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Approved April 2014 by the Graduate Supervisory Committee: Stephen Pratt, Chair Bert Hölldobler Marco Janssen Jennifer Fewell Juergen Liebig ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY May 2014 ABSTRACT The coordination of group behavior in the social insects is representative of a broader phenomenon in nature, emergent biological complexity. In such systems, it is believed that large- scale patterns result from the interaction of relatively simple subunits. This dissertation involved the study of one such system: the social foraging of the ant Temnothorax rugatulus. Physically tiny with small population sizes, these cavity-dwelling ants provide a good model system to explore the mechanisms and ultimate origins of collective behavior in insect societies. My studies showed that colonies robustly exploit sugar water. Given a choice between feeders unequal in quality, colonies allocate more foragers to the better feeder. If the feeders change in quality, colonies are able to reallocate their foragers to the new location of the better feeder. These qualities of flexibility and allocation could be explained by the nature of positive feedback (tandem run recruitment) that these ants use. By observing foraging colonies with paint-marked ants, I was able to determine the ‘rules’ that individuals follow: foragers recruit more and give up less when they find a better food source. By altering the nutritional condition of colonies, I found that these rules are flexible – attuned to the colony state. In starved colonies, individual ants are more likely to explore and recruit to food sources than in well-fed colonies. -
Extraordinary Starvation Resistance in Temnothorax Rugatulus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Colonies: Demography and Adaptive Behavior
Extraordinary starvation resistance in Temnothorax rugatulus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) colonies: Demography and adaptive behavior By: O. Rueppell and R. W. Kirkman Rueppell O., Kirkman, R. (2005) Extraordinary starvation resistance in Temnothorax rugatulus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) colonies: Demography and adaptive behavior. Insectes Sociaux, 52: 282-290. Made available courtesy of Birkhaeuser Verlag: http://www.springer.com/birkhauser/biosciences/journal/40?detailsPage=description The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com ***Note: Figures may be missing from this format of the document Abstract: Ant colony mortality has not been sufficiently studied, even though it is crucial for understanding social insect population biology and can serve as an important model for general aging and mortality processes. Particularly, studies on proximate mechanisms on mortality and stress resistance of ant colonies are lacking. This study explores the long-term colony starvation resistance of the small myrmecine ant Temnothorax rugatulus. We report extraordinary starvation resistance in the 21 colonies investigated, as most survived the eight months of total starvation. Furthermore, we studied demographic and behavioral changes over the experimental period. Brood decline began first (after two months) and mortality was highest, worker decline was intermediate, and queen mortality started latest and remained lowest. We found brood (its relative change during the first four months and the level of brood relative to colony size) to be the only significant predictor of colony starvation resistance, but not the degree of polygyny. As expected, rates of trophallaxis increased during the starvation period while colony activity bouts occurred more frequently but were much shorter, leading to an overall decrease in activity levels. -
The Proximate and Ultimate Bases of Regulation of Lifespan And
The proximate and ultimate bases of regulation of lifespan and reproduction in ants Dissertation Zur Erlangung des Grades Doktor der Naturwissenschaften Fachbereich Biologie Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz Matteo Negroni geb. am 20. Juni 1991 in Paris, Frankreich Mainz 2019 Dekan: Prof. Dr. NA 1. Berichterstatterin: Prof. Dr. NA 2. Berichterstatter: Dr. NA Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 26.09.2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY……………………….………………………………………………………………………………....2 GENERAL INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER 1 ............................................................................................................................. 22 LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION IN SOCIAL INSECTS: A FEMALE PERSPECTIVE .......................................... 22 CHAPTER 2 ............................................................................................................................. 34 SOCIAL ORGANISATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS IN TWO QUEEN MORPHS OF THE ANT TEMNOTHORAX RUGATULUS 34 CHAPTER 3 ............................................................................................................................. 58 POSITIVE EFFECT OF FOOD INTAKE ON SEQUESTOSOME-1 EXPRESSION AND A POSITIVE LINK BETWEEN FERTILITY AND DNA REPAIR IN TEMNOTHORAX RUGATULUS ANT QUEENS ........................................ 58 CHAPTER 4 ............................................................................................................................ -
Carnivory Is Positively Correlated with Latitude Among Omnivorous Mammals: Evidence from Brown Bears, Badgers and Pine Martens
Ann. Zool. Fennici 46: 395–415 ISSN 0003-455X (print), ISSN 1797-2450 (online) Helsinki 18 December 2009 © Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board 2009 Carnivory is positively correlated with latitude among omnivorous mammals: evidence from brown bears, badgers and pine martens Egle Vulla1, Keith A. Hobson2, Marju Korsten1, Malle Leht3, Ants-Johannes Martin4, Ave Lind4, Peep Männil5, Harri Valdmann1 & Urmas Saarma1* 1) Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 51014 Tartu, Estonia (*corresponding authors’ e-mail: [email protected]) 2) Environment Canada, 11 Innovation Blvd., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 3H5 3) Department of Botany, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51014 Tartu, Estonia 4) Department of Plant Protection, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51014 Tartu, Estonia 5) Centre of Forest Protection and Silviculture, Rõõmu tee 2, 51013 Tartu, Estonia Received 17 Nov. 2008, revised version received 4 May 2009, accepted 16 Mar. 2009 Vulla, E., Hobson, K. A., Korsten, M., Leht, M., Martin, A.-J., Lind, A., Männil, P., Valdmann, H. & Saarma, U. 2009: Carnivory is positively correlated with latitude among omnivorous mammals: evidence from brown bears, badgers and pine martens. — Ann. Zool. Fennici 46: 395–415. Omnivores exploit numerous sources of protein and other nutrients throughout the year, and meat is generally considered a high-quality resource. However, it is unknown if there is any general association between latitude and carnivorous behavior in omnivorous mammals. We examined the relative importance of meat and other dietary components, including anthropogenic food items, in the diet of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Estonia using conventional scat- and stomach-content analyses as well as stable-isotope (δ15N, δ13C) analyses. -
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Myrmecological News 19 Digital supplementary material Digital supplementary material to DEJEAN, A., CORBARA, B., ROUX, O. & ORIVEL, J. 2014: The antipredatory behaviours of Neotropical ants towards army ant raids (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). – Myrmeco- logical News 19: 17-24. Appendix 1: Synthesis of the reactions of different ant species when faced with New World army ants. The size of the ecitonine colonies varies as follows: Eciton burchellii WESTWOOD, 1842: up to 650,000 workers (FRANKS 1985) and E. hamatum FABRICIUS, 1782: up to 250,000 workers (RETTENMEYER & al. 1983); Neivamyrmex nigrescens (CRESSON, 1872): 150,000 to 200,000 (SCHNEIRLA 1958); Nomamyrmex esenbeckii (WESTWOOD, 1842): 700,000 workers (RETTENMEYER 1963); Labidus praedator (F. SMITH, 1858): one million workers (HÖLLDOBLER & WILSON 1990). SF: subfamily; Dol: Dolichoderinae; Eci: Ecitoninae; Ect: Ectatomminae; Form: Formicinae; Myr: Myrmicinae; Par: Paraponerinae; Ps; Pseudomyrmecinae; Pon: Ponerinae. Raided ant species SF Army ant Details of the reactions References Avoided by army ants Acromyrmex coronatus Myr Eciton bur- Encountered Acromyrmex forager immobilized, crouched, SAN JUAN (2002) FABRICIUS, 1804 chellii (WEST- was antennated, then it moved; Eciton seemed repulsed. WOOD, 1842) Atta cephalotes (LINNAEUS, Myr Eciton No aggressiveness during the encounters. Once the raid RETTENMEYER 1758), Atta spp. burchellii traversed the Atta nest. (1963), this study Odontomachus spp. Pon Eciton hama- Avoided; seldom retrieved workers. RETTENMEYER & tum (FABRICI- al. (1983) US, 1782) Crematogaster spp. Myr Eciton spp. Avoided by Eciton as well as Neivamyrmex pilosus. RETTENMEYER & al. (1983) Myrmecocystus mimicus Myr Neivamyrmex Avoided; even F. pruinosus climbed over the raiders, MIRENDA & al. WHEELER, 1908, nigrescens which remained motionless. (1980) Forelius pruinosus (ROGER, Dol (CRESSON, 1863) 1872) Solenopsis xyloni MCCOOK, Myr Neivamyrmex Avoided but was raided by Neivamyrmex harrisi (speci- MIRENDA & al. -
Division of Labour Promotes the Spread of Information in Colony Emigrations by the Ant Temnothorax Rugatulus
Division of labour promotes the spread royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rspb of information in colony emigrations by the ant Temnothorax rugatulus Gabriele Valentini1,2, Naoki Masuda7,8, Zachary Shaffer2, Jake R. Hanson1,3, Research Takao Sasaki9, Sara Imari Walker1,3,4, Theodore P. Pavlic2,3,4,5,6 Cite this article: Valentini G, Masuda N, and Stephen C. Pratt2 Shaffer Z, Hanson JR, Sasaki T, Walker SI, Pavlic 1School of Earth and Space Exploration, 2School of Life Sciences, 3Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in TP, Pratt SC. 2020 Division of labour promotes Science, 4ASU–SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems, 5School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision the spread of information in colony Systems Engineering, and 6School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA emigrations by the ant Temnothorax rugatulus. 7Department of Mathematics, and 8Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering Program, Proc. R. Soc. B 287: 20192950. University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA 9Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2950 GV, 0000-0002-8961-3211; TS, 0000-0001-7923-9855; SCP, 0000-0002-1086-4019 The fitness of group-living animals often depends on how well members Received: 19 December 2019 share information needed for collective decision-making. Theoretical studies have shown that collective choices can emerge in a homogeneous group of Accepted: 6 March 2020 individuals following identical rules, but real animals show much evidence for heterogeneity in the degree and nature of their contribution to group decisions. In social insects, for example, the transmission and processing of information is influenced by a well-organized division of labour. -
Description of a New Genus of Primitive Ants from Canadian Amber
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Insecta Mundi Florida 8-11-2017 Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem- and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Leonid H. Borysenko Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi Part of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, and the Entomology Commons Borysenko, Leonid H., "Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem- and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)" (2017). Insecta Mundi. 1067. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/1067 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Insecta Mundi by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. INSECTA MUNDI A Journal of World Insect Systematics 0570 Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem- and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Leonid H. Borysenko Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes AAFC, K.W. Neatby Building 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, K1A 0C6, Canada Date of Issue: August 11, 2017 CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FL Leonid H. Borysenko Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem- and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Insecta Mundi 0570: 1–57 ZooBank Registered: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C6CCDDD5-9D09-4E8B-B056-A8095AA1367D Published in 2017 by Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. -
Macroevolutionary Integration of Phenotypes Within and Across Ant Worker 9 Castes 10 11 12 13 Nicholas R
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/604470; this version posted April 11, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Macroevolutionary integration of phenotypes within and across ant worker 9 castes 10 11 12 13 Nicholas R. Friedman1*, Beatrice Lecroq Bennet1, Georg Fischer1, Eli M. Sarnat1, Jen-Pan 14 Huang2,3, L. Lacey Knowles2, Evan P. Economo1 15 16 1 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, 17 Okinawa, Japan 904-0495 18 19 2 Museum of Zoology, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan 20 21 3 Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan 22 23 *To whom correspondence should be addressed: [email protected] 24 25 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/604470; this version posted April 11, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 26 Abstract 27 28 Phenotypic traits are often integrated into evolutionary modules: sets of organismal parts that 29 evolve together. In social insect colonies the concepts of integration and modularity apply to sets 30 of traits both within and among functionally and phenotypically differentiated castes. On 31 macroevolutionary timescales, patterns of integration and modularity within and across castes 32 can be clues to the selective and ecological factors shaping their evolution and diversification. 33 We develop a set of hypotheses describing contrasting patterns of worker integration and apply 34 this framework in a broad (246 species) comparative analysis of major and minor worker 35 evolution in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole. -
Personality of Ant Colonies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) – Underlying Mechanisms and Ecological Consequences Eva Horna-Lowell*, Kevin M
ISSN 1997-3500 Myrmecological News myrmecologicalnews.org Myrmecol. News 31: 47-59 doi: 10.25849/myrmecol.news_031:047 27 January 2021 Review Article Personality of ant colonies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) – underlying mechanisms and ecological consequences Eva Horna-Lowell*, Kevin M. Neumann*, Sean O’Fallon*, Ana Rubio* & Noa Pinter-Wollman Abstract Consistent differences in behavior among individual animals, also known as animal personalities, are ubiquitous. In social insects, there is more than one biological scale at which individuals differ from one another in behavior: workers and colonies. In most ants, natural selection acts at the level of the colony, therefore differences in collective behavior among colonies can have important ecological and evolutionary consequences. Here, we review the recent literature on consistent individual differences among ant colonies in their collective behavior, that is, colony personality. We discuss the causes and consequences of colony personalities and highlight unanswered questions that can be examined uniquely by studying ants. We argue that ants are a distinctive study system for examining the links between the mechanisms that underlie the emergence of personality and the ecological consequences of personalities because of their ability to shape their local environment, that is, their nest. We end with an example of how the study of colony personality might be applied to identify solutions for challenges in conservation biology. Overall, the study of ant colony personality opens up new opportunities -
Do Aphids Actively Search for Ant Partners?
Author running head: C. Fischer et al. Title running head: Do aphids actively search for ant partners? Correspondence: Christophe Y. Fischer, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, University of Liege – Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, 2 Passage des Déportés, 5030 Gembloux; Tel: +32 81 622218; fax: +32 81 622216; email: [email protected] ORIGINAL ARTICLE Do aphids actively search for ant partners? Christophe Y. Fischer1, Maryse Vanderplanck2, Georges C. Lognay1, Claire Detrain3 and François J. Verheggen4 1Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, University of Liege, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Gembloux, 2Research Institute of Biosciences, Laboratory of Zoology, University of Mons, Mons, 3Unit of Social Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, 4Department of Functional and Evolutionary Entomology, University of Liege, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Gembloux, Belgium This is an Accepted Article that has been peer-reviewed and approved for publication in the Insect Science but has yet to undergo copy-editing and proof correction. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/1744-7917.12125. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. 1 Abstract The aphid–ant mutualistic relationships are not necessarily obligate for neither partners but evidence is that such interactions provide them strong advantages in terms of global fitness. While it is largely assumed that ants actively search for their mutualistic partners namely using volatile cues; whether winged aphids (i.e. aphids’ most mobile form) are able to select ant-frequented areas had not been investigated so far. Ant-frequented sites would indeed offer several advantages for these aphids including a lower predation pressure through ant presence and enhanced chances of establishing mutuaslistic interactions with neighbour ant colonies. -
Defense, Regulation, and Evolution Li Tian University of Kentucky, [email protected]
University of Kentucky UKnowledge Entomology Faculty Publications Entomology 3-5-2014 The oldieS rs in Societies: Defense, Regulation, and Evolution Li Tian University of Kentucky, [email protected] Xuguo Zhou University of Kentucky, [email protected] Right click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits oy u. Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/entomology_facpub Part of the Entomology Commons Repository Citation Tian, Li and Zhou, Xuguo, "The oS ldiers in Societies: Defense, Regulation, and Evolution" (2014). Entomology Faculty Publications. 70. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/entomology_facpub/70 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Entomology at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusion in Entomology Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Soldiers in Societies: Defense, Regulation, and Evolution Notes/Citation Information Published in International Journal of Biological Sciences, v. 10, no. 3, p. 296-308. © Ivyspring International Publisher. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Reproduction is permitted for personal, noncommercial use, provided that the article is in whole, unmodified, and properly cited. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/ijbs.6847 This article is available at UKnowledge: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/entomology_facpub/70 Int. J. Biol. Sci. 2014, Vol. 10 296 Ivyspring International Publisher International Journal of Biological Sciences 2014; 10(3):296-308. doi: 10.7150/ijbs.6847 Review The Soldiers in Societies: Defense, Regulation, and Evolution Li Tian and Xuguo Zhou Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546-0091, USA.