Fire Ants and Leaf-Cutting Ants

Foreword -- Preface -- Keynote Address -- 10 -- History of the Leaf-Cutting Ant Problem -- Economics of Grass-Cutting Ants -- History of Imported Fire Ants in the United States -- Agricultural and Medical Impact of the Imported Fire Ants -- Beneficial Aspects of the Imported Fire Ant: A Field Ecology Approach -- Biology and Ecology -- 88 -- 104 -- 114 -- 123 -- 146 -- 159 -- 172 -- 184 -- Perspectives on Some Queen Pheromones of Social Insects with Special Reference to the Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta -- Chemical Communication in Leaf-Cutting Ants -- The Trail Pheromone Complex of Solenopsis invicta and solenopsis richteri -- Nestmate Recognition and Territorial Marking in Solenopsis geminata and in some Attini -- The Queen Recognition Pheromone of Solenopsis invicta -- Leaf-Cutting Ant Symbiotic Fungi: A Synthesis of Recent Research -- Prevention of Feeding by Acromyrmex octospinosus with Antifeedants from Yams -- Chemical Ecology of Host Plant Selection by the Leaf-Cutting Ant, Atta cephalotes -- Physiology and Biochemistry -- 289 -- 302 -- 316 -- 327 -- Diseases of Fire Ants: Problems and Opportunities -- Protection of Leaf-Cutting Ants from Biohazards: Is There a Future for Microbiological Control? -- Chemical Control and Bait Formulations for Leaf-Cutting Ants -- The Search for Chemical Bait Toxicants -- Chemical Baits: Specificity and Effects on Other Ant Species -- Insect Growth Regulators for Control of the Imported Fire Ant -- Status of Leaf-Cutting Ant Control in Forest Plantations in Brazil -- Control of Atta and Acromyrmex spp. in Pine Tree Plantations in the Venezuelan Llanos