. Cooperative economic insect report. Insect pests Control United States Periodicals. - 11 - gathering plant material for the fungus substrate, appear in the colony. As the colony grows the ants build larger fungus gardens. Large nests may contain as many as a thousand chambers. The nests begin with one opening but later there may be numbers, some of which are several hundred yards removed from the original. Under Brazilian conditions, incubation requires 14-40 days, larval period 12-15 days or longer and pupal 2-3 weeks. Queens may live for 12 years. Description: Size of workers range from 1.
. Cooperative economic insect report. Insect pests Control United States Periodicals. - 11 - gathering plant material for the fungus substrate, appear in the colony. As the colony grows the ants build larger fungus gardens. Large nests may contain as many as a thousand chambers. The nests begin with one opening but later there may be numbers, some of which are several hundred yards removed from the original. Under Brazilian conditions, incubation requires 14-40 days, larval period 12-15 days or longer and pupal 2-3 weeks. Queens may live for 12 years. Description: Size of workers range from mm. Largest workers with major part pilose. At least two lateral frontal areas without erect hairs. Pro- and mesopleura almost without sutures, with a fine delicate reticulation. Body unicolor, clear light castaneous color, reddish castaneous or reddish brown; the gaster sometimes a little darker. Anterior mesonotal spines conical and thick about same length as those of epinotum which are spiniform, elongate and directed upward. (Prepared in Plant Pest Survey Section in cooperation with other ARS agencies.) CEIR 7(32) Queen of Atta sp. (enlarged). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine; United States. Plant Pest Control Branch; United States. Plant Pest Control Division; United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs. Washington, D. C. : U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Administration, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
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