文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Jaleel, Waqar ¹ ; Li, Qunchen ¹ ; Khan, Khalid Ali ³ ; Khan, Farmanur Rahman ⁵ ; Ullah, Farman ⁷ ; Azad, Rashid ⁸ ; Sh ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Guangdong Acad Agr Sci, Plant Protect Res Inst, Guangdong Prov Key Lab High Technol Plant Protect, Guangzhou 510640, Peoples R China

2.South China Agr Univ, Coll Agr, Dept Entomol, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, Peoples R China

3.King Khalid Univ, Res Ctr Adv Mat Sci RCAMS, POB 9004, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia

4.King Khalid Univ, Dept Biol, Fac Sci, Unit Bee Res & Honey Prod, POB 9004, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia

5.Qassim Univ, Dept Biol, POB 6666, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia

6.Qassim Univ, Educ Serv, POB 6666, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia

7.China Agr Univ, Dept Entomol, Coll Plant Protect, Beijing 100193, Peoples R China

8.Univ Haripur, Dept Entomol, Haripur, Pakistan

关键词： Solenopsis invicta; Gustatory sensilla; Ablation; Silicon; HCL solutions

期刊名称：JOURNAL OF KING SAUD UNIVERSITY SCIENCE （ 影响因子：4.011； ）

ISSN： 1018-3647

年卷期： 2021 年 33 卷 7 期

页码：

收录情况： SCI

摘要： The red imported fire ant is one of the notorious species of ants all over the world. The most effective control of red imported fire ant is the broadcast application of baits, i.e., fatty oil. However, to improve the sugar bait efficacy against fire ants, one of the most important ways is that understand the sugar taste mechanism of fire ant workers via feeding behavior/ethogram. Therefore, we first time described the feeding ethogram of minor fire ant workers to sucrose solution. As well as, we first time explained that, how we can block or deactivate the sensitivity of gustatory sensilla on gustatory appendages of fire ant workers (minor size, head width 0.5-0.8 mm). We used different techniques (ablation, 2-silicon components and HCL solution) for blocking the sensitivity of antennal and tarsal sensilla in in the fire ant workers. Feeding ethogram confirmed that fore legs tarsi of fire ant workers are main gustatory organ to sucrose solution. In antennal treatments, the survival % of workers without a flagellum (ablated of flagellum) was maximum as compared to silicon treated workers. In tarsal treatments, the survival % of HCL treated workers were maximum as compared to other treated workers (ablation of foreleg tarsi and silicon treated foreleg tarsi). The results implied that ablation for antennae flagellum and HCL solution for foreleg tarsi were more suitable for study the gustatory behavior of fire ant workers on the sucrose solution. This study would be more useful for the study regarding the gustatory sense of fire ant through antennal and tarsal sensilla. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).