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Effects of Eight Years of Collecting on the Persistence of Liometopum apiculatum Ant Nests in Rangelands of Charcas, San Luis Potosí, Mexico 八年采集对墨西哥圣路易斯波托西州查尔卡斯牧场中 Liometopum apiculatum 蚂蚁巢持久性的影响

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Sociobiology Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v71i2.10082

Julio César Zavala-Sánchez, J. A. Reyes-Agüero, Priscila Lara-Juárez, Pedro Castillo Lara, Alicia Grajales-Lagunes, Rogelio Aguirre-Rivera

{"title":"Effects of Eight Years of Collecting on the Persistence of Liometopum apiculatum Ant Nests in Rangelands of Charcas, San Luis Potosí, Mexico","authors":"Julio César Zavala-Sánchez, J. A. Reyes-Agüero, Priscila Lara-Juárez, Pedro Castillo Lara, Alicia Grajales-Lagunes, Rogelio Aguirre-Rivera","doi":"10.13102/sociobiology.v71i2.10082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v71i2.10082","url":null,"abstract":"In Mexico, the pupae of the reproductive castes of the ant Liometopum apiculatum, escamoles, are highly valued in traditional and gourmet cuisine in the country’s central region. Escamoles are collected during the dry season of the year. The recommended collecting process is to open the ant nest by removing soil until the rearing chamber and the trabeculae with attached escamoles are found. A well-managed ant nest can be collected repeatedly for approximately 12 to 40 years. In Charcas municipality, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 400 ant nests were located and checked under two land tenure conditions: the Laguna Seca private ranch and the Pocitos communal ejido. The exploitation of escamoles on both tenures was characterized by recording the number of dead and live ant nests. This work evaluated the condition of the ant nests registered in 2012 after eight years. The hypothesis was that ant nests’ survival would be greater in the private than in the communal land. The percentage of living ant nests on the ejido decreased by 35.67%. In contrast, on the ranch, it was 26.88%. The percentage of relocated ant nests was lower on the ejido, 37.43%, compared to the ranch, which was 48.1%. The number of dead ant nests on the ejido increased to 33.51% and on the ranch 15.0%. As predicted by the hypothesis, ant nest survival was higher on the private ranch than on the communal ejido lands because of stronger control of the extraction process.","PeriodicalId":21971,"journal":{"name":"Sociobiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141128074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Morphological and Histological Structure of Adexinal Glands of some Solitary Bee Species (Hymenoptera – Apoidea) 一些独居蜂种（膜翅目 - Apoidea）的肛门腺的形态学和组织学结构

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Sociobiology Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v71i2.10405

Kariman M. Mahmoud, Mohamed A. Shebl

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Diversity and Species Composition of Ants in Urban and Suburban Environments in Bejaia City (Algeria) 贝贾亚市（阿尔及利亚）城市和郊区环境中蚂蚁的多样性和物种组成

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Sociobiology Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v71i2.9698

Nadjet Laakel, L. Aissat, Leila Bounab, Cilia Yahiaoui

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Lipid Food Preference and Transportation Using Tools by an Indian Ant Species Monomorium pharaonis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): A Field Study 一种印度蚁(膜翅目:蚁科)的脂质食物偏好和工具运输:野外研究

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Sociobiology Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v70i4.9167

Ritika Sarkar, Sarmistha Banik, Ranajit Karmakar

{"title":"Lipid Food Preference and Transportation Using Tools by an Indian Ant Species Monomorium pharaonis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): A Field Study","authors":"Ritika Sarkar, Sarmistha Banik, Ranajit Karmakar","doi":"10.13102/sociobiology.v70i4.9167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v70i4.9167","url":null,"abstract":"Besides proteins and carbohydrates, the Pharaoh ant (Monomoroium pharaonis) prefers lipid foods especially when it becomes limiting in the colony. We used four different food-grade lipids such as mustard oil, sunflower oil, coconut oil and butter for seven consecutive days for a specified time frame (11.15 hr - 14.15 hr). There was a specific time zone in which the highest number of ants accumulated at all four food baits with varying peak values. Sunflower oil was the most preferred food, and mustard oil showed the lowest like. The differential number of ants in all four lipid food baits under observation can be attributed to the physical features and nutrient content. We also noted an interesting feature of the foraging activity: the major role of gathering and transporting food was performed primarily by two castes, intermediate and large, among the four distinct foraging castes. Most tools used in the present investigation were <0.5mm and of naturally available sand particles. They used the smallest tools more often as compared with the size of the other two categories. Our ant (M. pharaonis) transported only the butter-soaked smallest tools back to the nest. M. pharaonis used the smallest tools more often and this could be because the particular-sized tools were efficiently managed by the ant species under study. Our ants transported only the butter-soaked smallest tools back to the nest. It is revealed that butter was the most important lipid food for the particular ant colony of M. pharaonis.","PeriodicalId":21971,"journal":{"name":"Sociobiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135143158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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First Records of the Exotic Ant Strumigenys rogeri, Emery 1890 in Brazil 外来蚂蚁Strumigenys rogeri的最早记录，1890年在巴西

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Sociobiology Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v70i4.9886

Esperidião Alves dos Santos-Neto, Elmo Borges A. Koch, Alexandre Arnhold, Jacques H. Charles Delabie

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Ants Sleep, Plants do not: The Variation in Species’ Activity Influences the Topology of Interaction Networks 蚂蚁睡觉，植物不睡觉:物种活动的变化影响相互作用网络的拓扑结构

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Sociobiology Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v70i4.9283

José Eneas Schramm Júnior, Gabriela S. Oliveira, Tamires B. Santos, Gilberto Marcos de M. Santos

{"title":"Ants Sleep, Plants do not: The Variation in Species’ Activity Influences the Topology of Interaction Networks","authors":"José Eneas Schramm Júnior, Gabriela S. Oliveira, Tamires B. Santos, Gilberto Marcos de M. Santos","doi":"10.13102/sociobiology.v70i4.9283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v70i4.9283","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of graph theory allowed using the complex network approach to aggregate detailed information about interactions between species. Although the use of the complex network approach has improved the understanding about community structuring, few aspects such as the temporal variation in the species’ activity pattern in the networks’ topology were explored so far. The current study used the ecological network approach to investigate ants interacting in the extrafloral nectary (EFN) of plants in order to test the hypothesis that the temporal variation in the foraging behavior of these animals affects the networks’ topology. In order to assess the temporal effect on the interaction networks, 24-hour collections divided in two 12-hour shifts (day and night) were performed in 20 plots, thus totaling 288 collection hours over 6 months. The ant-plant interaction networks presented similarity among the topological metrics assessed throughout the day. Different ant species presented distinct foraging times. Thus, two modules referring to the day and night shifts emerged from the network and presented specific species at each foraging shift. On the other hand, the plants kept on providing the resource (active EFNs) throughout the day. The results found in the current study have shown that ecological networks keep their structures constant; however, the ecological processes ruling these networks can better respond to the effects caused, for example, by the temporal variation in species’ activity. Therefore, it is worth always taking into consideration the importance of ecological processes at the time to analyze interactions in the nature.","PeriodicalId":21971,"journal":{"name":"Sociobiology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135141252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Record of an Ectoparasitic Fungus on Eggs of the Neotropical Termite Nasutitermes corniger (Blattaria, Isoptera, Termitidae) 一种新热带白蚁(白蚁亚目，等翅目，白蚁科)卵外寄生真菌的记录

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Sociobiology Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v70i4.9592

Ana Maria Costa-Leonardo, Vanelize Janei

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Step-by-step Dissection Protocol of Apicotermitinae Worker (Blattaria: Isoptera) 顶白蚁科工蜂分步解剖规程(白蚁目:等翅目)

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Sociobiology Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v70i4.8503

Rayssa Almeida-Azevedo, João Alves-Oliveira, José Wellington Morais, Elizabeth Franklin, Renato Almeida de Azevedo

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Reviewing Social Facilitation in Insects Over the Past 30 Years 回顾过去30年昆虫的社会促进作用

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Sociobiology Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v70i4.9210

Andrea A. Fonseca, Conceição Aparecida dos Santos

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First Record of the Introduced Ant Myrmica specioides In the Eastern United States 美国东部引进金蚁物种的首次记录

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Sociobiology Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v70i4.9153

Sämi Schär, Roger Vila, Mattia Menchetti

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