Scavenging Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) Transmit Solenopsis Invicta Virus 3 to Red Imported Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Colonies

Sanford D. Porter; Steven M. Valles; Roberto M. Pereira

doi:10.1653/024.099.0444

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1 December 2016 Scavenging Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) Transmit Solenopsis Invicta Virus 3 to Red Imported Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Colonies

Sanford D. Porter, Steven M. Valles, Roberto M. Pereira

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Florida Entomologist, 99(4):811-812 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1653/024.099.0444

Abstract

This study demonstrated that Solenopsis invicta virus 3 (SINV-3) can be mechanically transmitted among colonies of fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by scavengers like the house cricket (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), which readily eat dead infected fire ant workers without becoming infected themselves.

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Sanford D. Porter, Steven M. Valles, and Roberto M. Pereira "Scavenging Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) Transmit Solenopsis Invicta Virus 3 to Red Imported Fire Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Colonies," Florida Entomologist 99(4), 811-812, (1 December 2016). https://doi.org/10.1653/024.099.0444

Published: 1 December 2016

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