Pupae Transplantation to Boost Early Colony Growth in the Weaver Ant Oecophylla longinoda Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

<em>Oecophylla</em><span> ants are currently used for biological control in fruit plantations in Australia, Asia and Africa and for protein production in Asia. To further improve the technology and implement it on a large scale, effective and fast production of live colonies is des...

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Autores principales:	Issa Ouagoussounon, Antonio Sinzogan, Joachim Offenberg, Appolinaire Adandonon, Jean-François Vayssières, Dansou Kossou
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Publicado:	Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana 2014
Materias:	Biological control entomophagy nest mate recognition weaver ant colony production Oecophylla longinoda Zoology QL1-991 Ecology QH540-549.5 Natural history (General) QH1-278.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ae4fc81d3be644048d2907f5e80e60502021-12-02T16:17:05ZPupae Transplantation to Boost Early Colony Growth in the Weaver Ant Oecophylla longinoda Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)0361-652510.13102/sociobiology.v60i4.374-379https://doaj.org/article/ae4fc81d3be644048d2907f5e80e60502014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://periodicos.uefs.br/ojs/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/183https://doaj.org/toc/0361-6525<em>Oecophylla</em><span> ants are currently used for biological control in fruit plantations in Australia, Asia and Africa and for protein production in Asia. To further improve the technology and implement it on a large scale, effective and fast production of live colonies is desirable. Early colony development may be artificially boosted via the use of multiple queens (pleometrosis) and/or by adoption of foreign pupae in developing colonies. In the present experiments, we tested if multiple queens and transplantation of pupae could boost growth in young </span><em>Oecophylla longinoda </em><span>colonies. Colonies with two queens artificially placed in the same nest, all perished due to queen fighting, suggesting that pleometrosis is not used by </span><em>O. longinoda</em><span> in Benin. In contrast, pupae transplantation resulted in highly increased growth rates, as pupae were readily adopted by the queens and showed high survival rates (mean = 92%). Within the 50-day experiment the total number of individuals in colonies with 50 and 100 pupae transplanted, increased with 169 and 387 %, respectively, compared to colonies receiving no pupae. This increase was both due to the individuals added in the form of pupae but also due to an increased per capita brood production by the resident queen, triggered by the adopted pupae. Thus pupae transplantation may be used to shorten the time it takes to produce weaver ant colonies in ant nurseries, and may in this way facilitate the implementation of weaver ant biocontrol in West Africa.</span>Issa OuagoussounonAntonio SinzoganJoachim OffenbergAppolinaire AdandononJean-François VayssièresDansou KossouUniversidade Estadual de Feira de SantanaarticleBiological controlentomophagynest mate recognitionweaver ant colony productionOecophylla longinodaZoologyQL1-991EcologyQH540-549.5Natural history (General)QH1-278.5ENSociobiology, Vol 60, Iss 4, Pp 374-379 (2014)
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topic	Biological control entomophagy nest mate recognition weaver ant colony production Oecophylla longinoda Zoology QL1-991 Ecology QH540-549.5 Natural history (General) QH1-278.5
spellingShingle	Biological control entomophagy nest mate recognition weaver ant colony production Oecophylla longinoda Zoology QL1-991 Ecology QH540-549.5 Natural history (General) QH1-278.5 Issa Ouagoussounon Antonio Sinzogan Joachim Offenberg Appolinaire Adandonon Jean-François Vayssières Dansou Kossou Pupae Transplantation to Boost Early Colony Growth in the Weaver Ant Oecophylla longinoda Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
description	<em>Oecophylla</em><span> ants are currently used for biological control in fruit plantations in Australia, Asia and Africa and for protein production in Asia. To further improve the technology and implement it on a large scale, effective and fast production of live colonies is desirable. Early colony development may be artificially boosted via the use of multiple queens (pleometrosis) and/or by adoption of foreign pupae in developing colonies. In the present experiments, we tested if multiple queens and transplantation of pupae could boost growth in young </span><em>Oecophylla longinoda </em><span>colonies. Colonies with two queens artificially placed in the same nest, all perished due to queen fighting, suggesting that pleometrosis is not used by </span><em>O. longinoda</em><span> in Benin. In contrast, pupae transplantation resulted in highly increased growth rates, as pupae were readily adopted by the queens and showed high survival rates (mean = 92%). Within the 50-day experiment the total number of individuals in colonies with 50 and 100 pupae transplanted, increased with 169 and 387 %, respectively, compared to colonies receiving no pupae. This increase was both due to the individuals added in the form of pupae but also due to an increased per capita brood production by the resident queen, triggered by the adopted pupae. Thus pupae transplantation may be used to shorten the time it takes to produce weaver ant colonies in ant nurseries, and may in this way facilitate the implementation of weaver ant biocontrol in West Africa.</span>
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author	Issa Ouagoussounon Antonio Sinzogan Joachim Offenberg Appolinaire Adandonon Jean-François Vayssières Dansou Kossou
author_facet	Issa Ouagoussounon Antonio Sinzogan Joachim Offenberg Appolinaire Adandonon Jean-François Vayssières Dansou Kossou
author_sort	Issa Ouagoussounon
title	Pupae Transplantation to Boost Early Colony Growth in the Weaver Ant Oecophylla longinoda Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
title_short	Pupae Transplantation to Boost Early Colony Growth in the Weaver Ant Oecophylla longinoda Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
title_full	Pupae Transplantation to Boost Early Colony Growth in the Weaver Ant Oecophylla longinoda Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
title_fullStr	Pupae Transplantation to Boost Early Colony Growth in the Weaver Ant Oecophylla longinoda Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
title_full_unstemmed	Pupae Transplantation to Boost Early Colony Growth in the Weaver Ant Oecophylla longinoda Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
title_sort	pupae transplantation to boost early colony growth in the weaver ant oecophylla longinoda latreille (hymenoptera: formicidae)
publisher	Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana
publishDate	2014
url	https://doaj.org/article/ae4fc81d3be644048d2907f5e80e6050
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Pupae Transplantation to Boost Early Colony Growth in the Weaver Ant Oecophylla longinoda Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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