LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF POGONOMYRMEX OCCIDENTALIS (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDEAE), WESTERN HARVESTER ANT, COLONY SURVIVAL IN WESTERN NEBRASKA

Authors

Kathleen H. Keeler, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

6-2021

Citation

THE SOUTHWESTERN NATURALIST 66(2): 114–119 JUNE 2021

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.