Calabuig Gomar, Altea; García Mari, Ferran; Pekas, Apostolos(Cambridge University Press (CUP): STM Journals, 2014-08)
[EN] Ants act simultaneously as predators and as hemipteran mutualists, and thereby
may affect the composition and population dynamics of a wide arthropod
community. We conducted ant-exclusion experiments in order to ...
[EN] BACKGROUNDThe vine mealybug, Planococcus ficus (Signoret) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) is a key pest of grapevine in the Mediterranean Basin. Some honeydew collecting ant species are known to increase mealybug populations ...
Pekas, Apostolos; Tena Barreda, Alejandro; Aguilar Martí, Mª Amparo; García Mari, Ferran(Oxford University Press, 2010)
[EN] We conducted an ant-exclusion experiment in a citrus orchard to evaluate the overall
impact of three ant species native in the Mediterranean, Pheidole pallidula (Nylander), Plagiolepis
schmitzii Forel, and Lasius ...
Abaquita Lipondog, Terence Al(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-11-07)
La presencia de hormigas que se alimentan de la melaza que excretan los hemípteros dificulta el control biológico de los pseudocóccidos mediante el uso del depredador especialista Cryptolaemus montrouzieri (Mulsant). Este ...
Pekas, Apostolos; Tena Barreda, Alejandro; Aguilar Martí, Mª Amparo; García Mari, Ferran(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
1 The role of ants in the citrus agro-ecosystem is controversial and understanding
their ecology may help to clarify their function. The present study determined the
daily and seasonal foraging patterns, the spatial ...
Sánchez Alberola, Jesús(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013-03-03)
[ES] Hormigas y hemípteros productores de melaza intercambian comida por protección en una estrecha relación mutualista. La melaza producida por diferentes especies de hemípteros es utilizada por las hormigas como recurso ...