Journal article

Publication year: 1991

Pages: 358-363

Journal: Zeitschrift für Pflanzenkrankheiten und Pflanzenschutz = Journal of plant diseases and protection

Volume number: 98

Issue number: 4

ISSN: 0340-8159

Publisher: Ulmer

Abstract: 

AMDRO fire ant bait was used to control the brown house ant, Pheidole megacephala Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), the most important competitor ant species of the beneficial red weaver ant, Oecophylla longinoda Latr. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), in coconut groves of Zanzibar.

Good selective and long lasting control of P. megacephala was achieved after treating palms with 9 g AMDRO bait/palm (active ingredient: hydramethylnone) at the base of the trunk. Recolonization of treated areas by P. megacephala was so slow that a second treatment was only necessary after 7 months.

The AMDRO-treatment resulted in a fast colonization of P. megacephala-free palms by O. longinoda and in an improved and economically feasible biological control of the coconut bug, Pseudotheraptus wayi Brown (Heteroptera, Coreidae).

Harvard Citation style: OSWALD, S. (1991) APPLICATION OF THE SELECTIVE FIRE ANT BAIT AMDRO AGAINST THE HARMFUL BROWN HOUSE ANT, PHEIDOLE-MEGACEPHALA, FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE BIOLOGICAL-CONTROL OF THE COCONUT BUG, PSEUDOTHERAPTUS-WAYI, BY THE BENEFICIAL RED WEAVER ANT, OECOPHYLLA-LONGINODA, Zeitschrift für Pflanzenkrankheiten und Pflanzenschutz = Journal of plant diseases and protection, 98(4), pp. 358-363

APA Citation style: OSWALD, S. (1991). APPLICATION OF THE SELECTIVE FIRE ANT BAIT AMDRO AGAINST THE HARMFUL BROWN HOUSE ANT, PHEIDOLE-MEGACEPHALA, FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE BIOLOGICAL-CONTROL OF THE COCONUT BUG, PSEUDOTHERAPTUS-WAYI, BY THE BENEFICIAL RED WEAVER ANT, OECOPHYLLA-LONGINODA. Zeitschrift für Pflanzenkrankheiten und Pflanzenschutz = Journal of plant diseases and protection. 98(4), 358-363.