Spermatozoon in Males and Inseminated Queens of the Imported Fire Ants

Authors

B. Michael Glancey, USDA
Clifford S. Lofgren, USDA

Date of this Version

1985

Comments

Published in The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 162-168.

Abstract

The Coulter Counter IIA, an automatic particle counter, was a fast, accurate device for counting spermatozoa in fire ants. Queens of Solenopsis invicta, the red imported fire ant (RIFA) had an average 5,669,683 ± 48,148 spermatozoa in the spermatheca two weeks after mating.