While invasive species eradications are at the forefront of biodiversity conservation, ant
eradication failures are common. We reviewed ant eradications worldwide to assess the …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the evidence for endocrine influences on division
of labor in insect societies. Juvenile hormone (JH) has been studied most extensively. The …

Phenotypic plasticity displayed by an animal in response to different environmental
conditions is supposedly crucial for its survival and reproduction. The female adults of some …

Questionnaire-based surveys of homeowners revealed that ants were the most
economically important and abundant household pest after mosquitoes and cockroaches in …

The success of responses to new incursions of invasive ants may be compromised in the
absence of effective baits. As a first step to ensuring effective incursion response, Biosecurity …

The effects of the juvenile hormone analog pyriproxyfen (at concentrations of 0.1, 0.5, and
1%) on egg production, number of ovarioles, and length of oocytes were examined in …

Pharaoh ant, Monomorium pharaonis (L.), infestations often consist of several colonies
located at different nest sites. To achieve control, it is desirable to suppress or eliminate the …

The history of natural and synthetic bioanalogues of insect juvenile hormone (JH), juvenoids
is more than 40 years old. The first JH-active lipid extracts prepared from the cecropia moths …

The efficacy of Distance Plus Ant Bait, containing the insect growth regulator pyriproxyfen,
was tested in the field against two invasive ant species in northern Australia: African big …

Two juvenile hormone analogs (JHAs), pyriproxyfen and S-methoprene, were impregnated
into dried tuna fish and fed to colonies of Monomorium pharaonis (L.) at very low …