Selective broadcast of fenoxycarb bait on fire ant infested prairie : effect on native ant community /
(a) were significantly reduced in the area treated with
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | (a) were significantly reduced in the area treated with 1993 collection period when species richness and diversity abundance within the uninfested prairie where fenoxycarb was ant infested, uninfested, managed and native ant treatment ant. To assess effects, ant species richness' abundance and areas was due in part to the abundance of non-resistant broadcast over uninfested prairie to determine the effect on broadcast, although the abundance of S. invicta increased. diversity were measured in two separate experiments. In the diversity. The diversity of ants in the managed area was effect of fire ant baits on the ant community. experiment (conducted in 1993), ants were sampled within fire fenoxycarb, was selectively broadcast to control the fire fenoxycarb. Native species showed no change in relative Fire ant infested areas were almost completely lacking in first experiment (conducted in 1992 and 1993), ants were in mean species richness and invicta Buren) infestation on the ant community of two north largely dueto the relative abundance of native species native ant species. The plant communities of different native species within previously infested areas, and the plots. In the native ant treatment plot, fenoxycarb bait was prairies during this study. In the first experiment, ant previously recorded from north Texas were sampled from the resistant to fire ants, while the diversity of the uninfested richness and diversity of native ant species. This research richness, abundance or diversity, except during the July, sampled from fire ant infested, uninfested, and managed areas samples collected from both the managed and uninfested areas similar in vegetative types. Twenty of the 32 ant species species. In the second experiment, ant samples collected from suggests the need for further study on the reestablishment of Texas blackland prairies, and the effect on the ant community the different treatment plots did not differ in species The mean Simpson dominance measure, 1, was correlated with the number of fire ants collected within treatment plots. This research describes the effect of a fire ant (Solenopsis treatment plots, as estimated by line-intercept method, were were significantly different from the fire ant infested area when a bait formulation of the insect growth regulator, within management units on the two prairies. In the second |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Entomology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 124 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |