常见的家庭补救措施无法阻止阿根廷蚁（膜翅目：蚁科）进入其偏好的栖息场所。

Common Home Remedies Do Not Deter Argentine Ants, (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), from a Preferred Harborage.

作者信息

Holloway Jacob B, Suiter Daniel R, Davis Jerry W, Gardner Wayne A

机构信息

Department of Entomology, University of Georgia Griffin Camus, 1109 Experiment Street, Griffin, GA 30223, USA.

Experimental Statistics, University of Georgia, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, 1109 Experiment Street, Griffin, GA 30223, USA.

出版信息

Insects. 2024 Oct 4;15(10):768. doi: 10.3390/insects15100768.

DOI:10.3390/insects15100768

PMID:39452344

原文链接:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11508884/

Abstract

In two laboratory trials, natural products, including freshly picked leaves from spearmint, rosemary, and tansy plants, a water extract from soybean plants, peels from a common cucumber, and 1% peppermint oil in hexane, were placed in a moist harborage preferred by Argentine ants, (Mayr), and the number of ants entering the harborage after two and four hours was counted. None of the recommended home remedies (tansy, cucumber, or soybean extract) deterred ants from an attractive, moist harborage in either trial, even when the quantity of these treatments was increased 4- to 10-fold. Freshly picked leaves from rosemary and spearmint plants deterred ants from harboring, and the 1% peppermint oil was the most deterrent of all treatments.

摘要

在两项实验室试验中，将天然产物放置在阿根廷蚁（Mayr）偏爱的潮湿藏身处，这些天然产物包括留兰香、迷迭香和艾菊植物的新鲜采摘叶片、大豆植物的水提取物、普通黄瓜的果皮以及1%的薄荷油己烷溶液，然后统计两小时和四小时后进入藏身处的蚂蚁数量。在两项试验中，推荐的任何一种家庭疗法（艾菊、黄瓜或大豆提取物）都无法阻止蚂蚁进入有吸引力的潮湿藏身处，即使这些处理的用量增加4至10倍。迷迭香和留兰香植物的新鲜采摘叶片能阻止蚂蚁栖息，1%的薄荷油在所有处理中威慑力最强。