caa a22 4500 397571909 CHVBK 20180308164844.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19960201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/ee/25.1.85 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/ee/25.1.85 Effect of Two Ant Species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on the Foraging and Survival of the Formosan Subterranean Termite (Isoptera: Rbinotermitidae) [Elektronische Daten] [Mary L. Cornelius, J. Kenneth Grace] We examined the effect of 2 ant species, the bigheaded ant, Pheidole megacephala (F.), and Ochetellus glaber (Mayr),on the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki. We also examined how differences in the proportion of termite soldiers affected the susceptibility of C. formosanus to predation by P. megacephala. In sand-filled containers, C. formosanus was more vulnerable to predation by P. megacephala than by O. glaber. However, the presence of ants of either species caused substantial mortality of termite soldiers P. megacephala was much more invasive of termite galleries than O. glaber. Termites exposed to P. megacephala suffered greater mortality compared with controls, regardless of worker to soldier ratio. However, there was no difference in termite mortality among replicates with different worker to soldier ratios. In the absence of sand, both ant species caused 100% mortality of termites after 1 wk of exposure. © 1996 Entomological Society of America Population Ecology nationallicence ants nationallicence Coptotermes formosanus nationallicence predation nationallicence Cornelius Mary L. Department of Entomology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 aut Grace J. Kenneth Department of Entomology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 aut Environmental Entomology Oxford University Press 25/1(1996-02-01), 85-89 0046-225X 25:1<85 1996 25 ee https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/25.1.85 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/25.1.85 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cornelius Mary L. Department of Entomology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Grace J. Kenneth Department of Entomology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Entomology Oxford University Press 25/1(1996-02-01), 85-89 0046-225X 25:1<85 1996 25 ee Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford