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agricultural entomology
Ant Species
ant species impact on agriculture
Ant's Venom
Ant’s Venom
Argentine Ant
Atta Cephalotes
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biological control ants
Carpenter Ant
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Cephalic Glands
chemical ecology insects
Coccus Viridis
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Fire Ants
Foraging Activity
Foraging Trails
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Fungus Garden
Harvester Ants
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Hymenoptera
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invasive species research
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Leaf Cutting Ants
Mating Flight
Monomorium Pharaonis
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Pest Ants
Pheidole Megacephala
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Red Imported Fire Ant
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Solenopsis Invicta
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Product details
- ISBN 9780367013240
- Weight: 1570g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Ants have always fascinated the nature observer. Reports from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia indicate that ants interested humans long ago. Myrmecology as a science had its beginning in the last century with great naturalists like Andre, Darwin, Emery, Escherich, Fabre, Fields, Forel, Janet, Karawaiew, McCook, Mayr, Smith, Wasmann and Wheeler. They studied ants as an interesting biological phenomenon, with little thought of the possible beneficial or detrimental effects ants could have on human activities (see Wheeler 1910 as an example). When Europeans began colonizing the New World, serious ant problems occurred. The first reports of pest ants came from Spanish and Portuguese officials of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Trinidad, The West Indies, Central America and South America. Leaf-cutting ants were blamed for making agricultural development almost impossible in many areas. These ants, Atta and Acromyrmex species, are undoubtedly the first ants identified as pests and may be considered to have initiated interest and research in applied myrmecology (Mariconi 1970).
Robert K. Vander Meer, Klaus Jaffe, Aragua Cedeno
