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Solenopsis invicta (fire ant) — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Solenopsis invicta

Common names: fire ant

Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae

Roles: predator

ITIS TSN: 154239

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 10 | Mentions: 12

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Knowledge graph centered on Solenopsis invicta with 71 nodes and 148 connections. Top connected: Ligusticum porteri, Atriplex canescens, Bacteria, Populus, elevational gradients.

Publications (10)

Associations Between Deer Browse and Aphid Colonization in a Long-Term Monitoring Study of Liguisticum porteri

2024Role: text_match

The Evolution and Ecology of Interactions Between Ants and Honeydew-Producing Hemipteran Insects

2022The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and SystematicsRole: text_match

Progressive sensitivity of trophic levels to warming underlies an elevational gradient in ant–aphid mutualism strength

2019OikosRole: text_match

Native ant (<i>Formica rufa, Formica fusca</i>), <i>Nicrophorus spp.</i> interactions at small mammal carcass resources in the southern Rocky Mountains, Gunnison National Forest, Colorado.

2017Role: text_match

Effects of <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i> Extrafloral Nectaries on Ant Abundance and Community Structure

2016Role: text_match

Abiotic and multitrophic determinants of geographic distribution in an herbivorous insect

2013Role: text_match

The effect of ants on the population dynamics of a protective symbiont of aphids, <i>Hamiltonella defensa</i>

2012Annals of Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match

Co-occurring Species

Tapinoma

Formicidae7 shared papers

T. sessile

6 shared papers

Ligusticum porteri

Apiaceae6 shared papers

Tapinoma sessile

Formicidae5 shared papers

Formica fusca

Formicidae4 shared papers

Formica rufa

Formicidae4 shared papers

Populus

Salicaceae4 shared papers

Artemisia tridentata

Asteraceae3 shared papers

Artemisia

Asteraceae3 shared papers

Bacteria

3 shared papers

thesis

The effect of ants on the population dynamics of <i>Hamiltonella defensa</i> a protective symbiont of aphids

2011Role: predator

Genetic structure in a montane mayfly <i>Baetis bicaudatus</i> (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae), from the Rocky Mountains, Colorado

2003Freshwater BiologyRole: text_match

The relationship between the distribution of worker sizes and new worker production in the ant Formica neorufibarbis

2002OecologiaRole: text_match