Set up for Laboratório de Insetos Sociais Praga
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 6:29 am
Larval isolation and brood care in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants
J. F. S. Lopes, W. O. H. Hughes, R. S. Camargo and L. C. Forti
Received 8 November 2004; revised 31 March 2005; accepted 22 April 2005.
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gatewa ... f&site=398
Location: Laboratório de Insetos Sociais Praga, Departamento de Produção Vegetal, Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas, Universidade Estadual Paulista,
Botucatu, SP, cx. postal 237, 18603-970, Brazil, e-mail: camargobotucatu@bol.com.br, lcforti@fca.unesp.br
We collected four colonies each of A. rugosus and A. balzani in Botucatu,
SP, Brasil (22o52’20’’S; 48o26’37’’W), and four colonies of A.
crassispinus in Jaguariaíva, PR, Brasil (24o32’S; 49o57’W).
The colonies were set-up in the laboratory in individual plastic containers with
a 1 cm layer of dampened plaster at their base to keep the humidity
inside the chambers at a high level. Each of these chambers was linked
by tubes to a foraging arena and a garbage chamber. The laboratory was
maintained at 24 ˚C, 70 % relative humidity, and the colonies fed on a
diet of leaves: Acalypha wilkesiana for A. rugosus and A. crassispinus,
or Cynodon dactylon var. tyfton for A. balzani.
J. F. S. Lopes, W. O. H. Hughes, R. S. Camargo and L. C. Forti
Received 8 November 2004; revised 31 March 2005; accepted 22 April 2005.
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gatewa ... f&site=398
Location: Laboratório de Insetos Sociais Praga, Departamento de Produção Vegetal, Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas, Universidade Estadual Paulista,
Botucatu, SP, cx. postal 237, 18603-970, Brazil, e-mail: camargobotucatu@bol.com.br, lcforti@fca.unesp.br
We collected four colonies each of A. rugosus and A. balzani in Botucatu,
SP, Brasil (22o52’20’’S; 48o26’37’’W), and four colonies of A.
crassispinus in Jaguariaíva, PR, Brasil (24o32’S; 49o57’W).
The colonies were set-up in the laboratory in individual plastic containers with
a 1 cm layer of dampened plaster at their base to keep the humidity
inside the chambers at a high level. Each of these chambers was linked
by tubes to a foraging arena and a garbage chamber. The laboratory was
maintained at 24 ˚C, 70 % relative humidity, and the colonies fed on a
diet of leaves: Acalypha wilkesiana for A. rugosus and A. crassispinus,
or Cynodon dactylon var. tyfton for A. balzani.