caa a22 4500 397572077 CHVBK 20180308164844.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19960801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/ee/25.4.848 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/ee/25.4.848 Weseloh Ronald M. Department of Entomology, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT 06504 Effect of Supplemental Foods on Foraging Behavior of Forest Ants in Connecticut [Elektronische Daten] [Ronald M. Weseloh] Granulated sucrose, ground-up dry cat food, or sucrose plus dry cat food were distributed weekly in forest plots during the spring and summer of 1995. Counts of ants, particularly Formica subsericea Say and F. neogagates Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), seen in 5-min walks through each plot were similar in the plots receiving supplemental foods to those in control plots. However, numbers of ants coming to canned cat food baits were significantly higher in plots receiving sucrose than in the controls. Ants in sugar plots were probably searching for protein-rich foods to feed larvae. The implications these results have for using forest ants as control agents for the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar L., and other forest pests are discussed. © 1996 Entomological Society of America Biological Control nationallicence Formica subsericea nationallicence Formica neogagates nationallicence Aphaenogaster fulva nationallicence Camponotus pennsylvanicus nationallicence Camponotus ferrugineus nationallicence Lymantria dispar nationallicence Environmental Entomology Oxford University Press 25/4(1996-08-01), 848-852 0046-225X 25:4<848 1996 25 ee https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/25.4.848 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/25.4.848 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Weseloh Ronald M. Department of Entomology, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT 06504 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Entomology Oxford University Press 25/4(1996-08-01), 848-852 0046-225X 25:4<848 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