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THE RED IMPORTED FIRE ANT, SOLENOPSIS INVICTA, IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE)
Type: Text
Year: 2006, 2006
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Snelling, Roy R., Wetterer, James K.
Description: The best known and most destructive exotic ant species in the US is the red imported fire
ant,
Solenopsis invicta
Buren. Recently, this species has been reported from several islands
in the West Indies, including St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (USVI) and Guana Island, British
Virgin Islands (BVI). In the present study, we report new records of
S. invicta
on St. Croix
(13 sites) and the… more
Full Text: Wetterer & Snelling: Solenopsis invicta in the Virgin Islands 431 THE RED IMPORTED FIRE ANT, SOLENOPSIS INVICTA, IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE) JAMES K. WETTERER1 AND ROY R. SNELLING2 Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, …