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Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

2001

Non-indigenous species

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Potential Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Impact On The Endangered Schaus Swallowtail (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), Elizabeth A. Forys, Anna Quistorff, Craig R. Allen Jan 2001

Potential Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Impact On The Endangered Schaus Swallowtail (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), Elizabeth A. Forys, Anna Quistorff, Craig R. Allen

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

The Schaus swallowtail, Papilio aristodemus ponceanus , historically occurred in tropical hardwood hammocks from South Miami to the upper Florida Keys and is currently listed as federally endangered. Much of the remaining hardwood hammock habitat is fragmented by roads and human development that may alter the microhabitat within the hammocks and increase the probability of invasion by non-native predators and competitors. One non-indigenous species that has recently invaded the Florida Keys, and that may impact the Schaus swallowtail is the red imported fire ant ( Solenopsis invicta Buren). We estimated abundance of red imported fire ants in Schaus swallowtail habitat …


Potential Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Impact On The Endangered Schaus Swallowtail (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), Elizabeth A. Forys, Anna Quistorff, Craig R. Allen Jan 2001

Potential Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Impact On The Endangered Schaus Swallowtail (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), Elizabeth A. Forys, Anna Quistorff, Craig R. Allen

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

The Schaus swallowtail, Papilio aristodemus ponceanus, historically occurred in tropical hardwood hammocks from South Miami to the upper Florida Keys and is currently listed as federally endangered. Much of the remaining hardwood hammock habitat is fragmented by roads and human development that may alter the microhabitat within the hammocks and increase the probability of invasion by non-native predators and competitors. One non-indigenous species that has recently invaded the Florida Keys, and that may impact the Schaus swallowtail is the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta Buren). We estimated abundance of red imported fire ants in Schaus swallowtail habitat …