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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
1985
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.
Comments
Published in The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 162-168.