Projeto Negócios Familiares Sustentáveis.
Attracting parasitic flies (Diptera: Phoridae) to injured workers of the giant ant Dinoponera Gigantea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Attracting parasitic flies (Diptera: Phoridae) to injured workers of the giant ant Dinoponera Gigantea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Flies of the genus Apocephalus are common parasites of worker ants. Although the mechanisms used by parasitic flies to find their host are not well understood, olfactory cues have been suggested as the mechanism for host location, especially when the host ant is...