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Biology and control of imported fire ants.

The purpose here is to review this research, although because of space limitations, much of the recent work concerning the chemical toxicology and persistence of mirex, the chemical currently used for control of imported fire ants.
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Techniques for collecting, rearing, and handling imported fire ants.

Biochemical Evidence for Hybridization in Fire Ants

Antifertility effects of benzylphenols and benzyl-1,3-benzodioxles on screwworm flies and other compounds affecting fertility in adult house flies.
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Symposium: New Technologies for the Taxonomic Identification of Arthropods: Use of Chemical Characters in Defining Populations of Fire Ants, Solenopsis Saevissima Complex, (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

The use of three species-specific chemical characters (venom alkaloids, cuticular hydrocarbons, and trail pheromones) to define S. invicta, S. richteri, and hybrid populations in the United States have important consequences regarding the species status of the two imported fire ants and the taxonomy of fire ant populations in South America.
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The poison sac of red imported fire ant queens: source of a pheromone attractant.

The poison sac of queens of the imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren, has been identified as the novel storage site of a queen pheromone. The pheromone elicits orientation and attraction in…
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Filtration of microparticles from liquids ingested by the red imported fire antSolenopsis invicta Buren

The imported fire ant,Solenopsis invicta, has a highly efficient mechanism for filtering particles from food material and offers little hope for the success of controlled release insecticide formulations that require ingestion of solid particles.
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Imported Fire Ant Toxic Bait Studies: Evaluation of Toxicants

Test methods were developed by which it was determined that an effective toxicant must exhibit delayed action over a wide dosage range, be readily transferred from one ant to another and not be repellent to the ants when incorporated in a bait.
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Degradation of the toxicant AC 217300 in Amdro imported fire ant bait under field conditions

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Release of chemosterilized males for the control of Anopheles albimanus in El Salvador. I. Characteristics of the test site and the natural population.

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Effectiveness of the Insect Growth Regulator Pyriproxyfen Against the Red Imported Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Corn grit-soybean oil baits contianing pyriproxyfen were as effective in four field tests as Logic, a JH-based bait widely used for fire ant control.
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