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Fire ant queens may live up to seven years and can produce up to 1,600 eggs per day, and colonies will have as many as 250,000 workers. [12] [18] The estimated potential life span is around 5 years and 10 months to 6 years and 9 months. [19] Young, virgin fire ant queens have wings (as do male fire ants), but they often cut them off after mating.
Solenopsis geminata is native to Central and South America, including the Caribbean islands, but has since spread throughout the tropics by human means. It is an invasive species with a world-wide distribution even greater than that of other invasive fire ant species such as Solenopsis invicta (red imported fire ant).
Solenopsis invicta, the fire ant, or red imported fire ant (RIFA), is a species of ant native to South America. A member of the genus Solenopsis in the subfamily Myrmicinae, it was described by Swiss entomologist Felix Santschi as a variant of S. saevissima in 1916. Its current specific name invicta was given to the ant in 1972 as a separate ...
The red fire ant, one of the world’s most invasive species, has been found in Europe for the first time, according to a new study published Monday.
The southern fire ant (Solenopsis xyloni), also known as the Californian fire ant or cotton ant, [1]: 89 is a stinging fire ant native to southern parts of the United States. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Its behaviour is similar to the red imported fire ant (S. invicta) , although its sting is less painful.
Santa Barbara County has spent a total of $15,000 eradicating local populations of red imported fire ants to prevent the invasive species from spreading. An infestation of 'aggressive' red fire ...
The typical morphology of a worker ant. S. saevissima belongs to the Solenopsis saevissima species group which includes 13 fire ant species that exhibit remarkably similar morphology, rendering morphological distinction nearly impossible [3] without the aid of chemical characters. [14]
Voilà, a fire ant raft is born. This odd situation, described by the researchers in the fall 2021 issue of APS Division of Fluid Dynamics , doesn’t just apply to the fire ant species Solenopsis ...