Red imported fire ants can decrease songbird nest survival
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Campomizzi A.J., Morrison M.L., Farrell S.L., Wilkins R.N., Drees B.M. & Packard J.M. (2009) Red imported fire ants can decrease songbird nest survival. The Condor, 111, 534-537.
Published source details Campomizzi A.J., Morrison M.L., Farrell S.L., Wilkins R.N., Drees B.M. & Packard J.M. (2009) Red imported fire ants can decrease songbird nest survival. The Condor, 111, 534-537.
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Protect nests from ants
A randomised, replicated and controlled study in March-July 2006-7 in a grassland/oak-juniper woodland mosaic in Texas, USA (Campomizzi et al. 2009) found that 18 white-eyed vireo Vireo griseus nests, protected from red imported fire ants Solenopsis invicta with a physical barrier and a chemical repellent, had significantly higher fledging success than 26 unprotected nests (31% vs. 10%). The same effect was seen in 13 experimental and 14 control black-capped vireo V. atricapilla nests, but this difference (13% vs. 7%) was non-significant. The physical barrier was Tanglefoot – a gum resin that traps crawling insects, applied to the branch >25 cm from each nest; the repellent was Arinix™ spiral wrap – a permethrin releasing plastic wrapped around the branch on top of the Tanglefoot.
