The aim of this report is to explore the relationship between the Amazon, climate, and the changes in this relationship that are underway as a result of forest destruction and the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.
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...