Chemical communication is a fundamental, highly complex component of social insect
societies. Ants in particular employ a remarkable diversity of chemical signals to maintain …

Human commerce has resulted in the spread of the imported fire ants, Solenopsis species,
worldwide. Six species of parasitic Pseudacteon phorid flies that are highly host specific to …

Ant communities often consist of many species with apparently similar niches. We present a
mathematical model of the dominance-discovery trade-off, the trade-off between the abilities …

This study investigated the effects of airborne interaction between different barley cultivars
on the behaviour of bird cherry-oat aphid Rhopalosiphum padi, the ladybird Coccinella …

Parasitoid phorid flies in the genus Pseudacteon are potential biocontrol agents of invasive
Solenopsis fire ants in the US. One Pseudacteon species, P. tricuspis Borgmeier, has been …

Prey-specialised predators have evolved specific cognitive adaptations that increase their
prey searching efficiency. In particular, when the prey is social, selection probably favours …

Fire ant populations in their South American homeland are about 1/5 to 1/10 as dense as
populations in North America (Porter et al., 1992; Porter et al., 1997a). This intercontinental …

This review updates and summarizes the current knowledge about the interaction of leaf‐
cutter ants and their parasitoids by providing comparable data for Acromyrmex and Atta ants …

The distribution and abundance of fire ant decapitating flies (Diptera: Phoridae:
Pseudacteon Coquillett) were studied in three regions of southern South America, primarily …

The phorid fly, Pseudacteon tricuspis Borgmeier, is an introduced parasitoid of imported fire
ants, Solenopsis spp., in the USA. Although the assumption that phorid flies use fire ant …