Longitudinal Study of Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Formicideae), Western Harvester Ant, Colony Survival in Western Nebraska

Authors

Kathleen H. Keeler, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

6-2021

Citation

Southwestern Naturalist (June 2021) 66(2): 114–119

Comments

Used by permission.

Abstract

I observed individual western harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex occidentalis) colonies, marked between 1977 and 1994, to live a mean of 15.65 years (n = 112). The longest-lived colony lived 42 years.