Population Fluidity in Leptothorax Longispinosus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Population genetics of the black ant Formica lemani (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, PO Box 65, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK Department of Biology and Environmental Science, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK Finnish Environment Institute, Research Department, P...

Common names for Australian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Most insects do not have common names, and this is a significant barrier to public interest in them, and to their study by non-specialists. This holds for even highly familiar insect groups such as ants. Here, I propose common names for all major native Australian ant genera and species-groups, as well as for many of the most abundant and distinctive species. Sixty-two genera, 142 species-group...

A North Florida Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

ECOLOGY AND POPULATION BIOLOGY Scale of Recruitment Limitation in the Western Harvester Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

We examined the scale of recruitment limitation in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Cresson). We measured colony density of 98 plots (0.25 ha) over an area of 500 ha. By applying an interpolation/extrapolation analysis to the spatial variability in colony density, we were able to accurately identify the location of two mating swarms. These two swarms were 1,400 m apart. Con...

Population Genetics of the Invasive Fire Ant Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the United States

Analyses of population genetic variation in invasive species can provide information on the history of the invasions, breeding systems, and gene ßow patterns. We surveyed genetic variation in both social forms of the red imported Þre ant, Solenopsis invictaBuren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), throughout the speciesÕ introduced range in the United States, to learn how the unique breeding biology of ...