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Plant–Derived Products for Leaf–Cutting Ants Control

J. C. Santos,R. Zanetti,D. Oliveira,G. Gajo,D. S. Alves

Published 2013 in Unknown venue

ABSTRACT

Leaf-cutting ants of the genera Atta sp. Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and Acromyr‐ mex sp. Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are among the best known species of the family Formicidae in the New World, mainly due to their behaviour of cutting live plants to grow the symbiotic fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus (Moller) Singer (Agaricales: Agaricaceae) [1] (Figure 1). This interaction, which emerged more than 50 million years ago [2] has evolved to such a complex level that the ants and fungi cannot survive separately; they live in symbiosis. The fungus supplies the ants with nutrients obtained from metabolising plant materials that can be easily assimilated. In exchange, its environment is highly protected by the ants, which remove contaminants and secrete antibiotics from their metapleural glands [3, 4].

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2013

  • Venue

    Unknown venue

  • Publication date

    2013-01-30

  • Fields of study

    Biology, Agricultural and Food Sciences, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.5772/55035
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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