NOTES ON A COMBINED NEST OF BOMBUS-PULLATUS (HYMENOPTERA, APIDAE) ANDACROMYRMEX-OCTOSPINOSUS (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE)

Authors
CHAVARRIA G
Citation
G. Chavarria, NOTES ON A COMBINED NEST OF BOMBUS-PULLATUS (HYMENOPTERA, APIDAE) ANDACROMYRMEX-OCTOSPINOSUS (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 69(4), 1996, pp. 403-405
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society → ACNP
ISSN journal
00228567
Volume
69
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Supplement
S
Pages
403 - 405
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-8567(1996)69:4<403:NOACNO>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
This paper describes an active nest of Bombus pullatus Franklin from C osta Rica that had a colony of leafcutter ants Acromyrmex octospinosus (Reich) build a fungus garden in the old abandoned cells of the bumbl e bee nest. Such associations between bumble bee and ant nests have no t been reported previously.