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News: Step aside, fire ants, there’s a new, big-headed, six-legged female sheriff in town

Started By kalimant , Mar 14 2019 4:42 AM
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#1 Offline kalimant - Posted March 14 2019 - 4:42 AM

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There were two interesting articles in the news this week about P. megacephala in FL

 

Step aside, fire ants, there’s a new, big-headed, six-legged female sheriff in town

 


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I currently maintain a site dedicated to the hyper-diverse myrmicine genus Pheidole.:

 

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I also own the Lurker's Guide to Leafcutters Ants

 

#2 Offline Rstheant - Posted March 14 2019 - 2:28 PM

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Interesting read.
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#3 Offline kalimant - Posted March 17 2019 - 6:02 AM

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Yep, I find it interesting that with all the money and effort people have spent to eradicate S. invicta (and failed miserably), it's actually other ants like Nylanderia fulva that are constraining it now.

 


I currently maintain a site dedicated to the hyper-diverse myrmicine genus Pheidole.:

 

PHEIDOLE

 

I also own the Lurker's Guide to Leafcutters Ants

 

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