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Raid is the brand name of a line of insecticide products produced by S. C. Johnson & Son, first launched in 1956. The initial active ingredient was allethrin, the first synthetic pyrethroid. [1] Raid derivatives aimed at particular invertebrate species can contain other active agents such as the more toxic cyfluthrin which is also a pyrethroid. [2]
Amdro is a trade name for a hydramethylnon-based hydrazone insecticide, commonly used in the southern United States for fire ant control. Amdro was patented in 1978 by the American Cyanamid company, now Ambrands, and was conditionally approved for use by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in August, 1980.
A black drongo in a typical anting posture. Anting is a maintenance behavior during which birds rub insects, usually ants, on their feathers and skin.The bird may pick up the insects in its bill and rub them on the body (active anting), or the bird may lie in an area of high density of the insects and perform dust bathing-like movements (passive anting).
As the temperature climbs to 100 degrees, the soil around a slab or pier and beam foundations shrinks and begins to move around and settle. This movement compresses the foundation, often creating ...
Ant chalk, also known as Chinese chalk or Miraculous Insecticide Chalk, is an insecticide in the form of normal looking chalk. It contains the pesticides deltamethrin and cypermethrin. [1] While the active ingredients are legal in the United States, [2] the chalk is not legal there. Labeling often falsely claims the chalk is "harmless to human ...
The identification of these natural products is important in order to understand which aspects of the ants are under control and consequently how O. unilateralis manipulates the ant. Attachment of O. unilateralis spores onto the ant's exoskeleton : The first step O. unilateralis has to overcome to have a successful infection is to attach itself ...
Polyergus rufescens is a species of slave-making ant native to southern Europe and parts of Asia, commonly referred to as the European Amazon ant or as the slave-making ant. It is an obligatory social parasite , unable to feed itself or look after the colony and reliant on ants of another species to undertake these tasks.
Historically, "army ant" in the broad sense referred to various members of five different ant subfamilies. In two of these cases, the Ponerinae and Myrmicinae , only a few species and genera exhibit legionary behavior; in the other three lineages, Ecitoninae , Dorylinae , and Leptanillinae , all of the constituent species were considered to be ...