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Selective broadcast of fenoxycarb bait on fire ant infested prairie
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(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
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