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At least 14 species were identified of which the very aggressive <jats:italic>Solenopsis geminata<\/jats:italic> (Fabricius) and also <jats:italic>Tapinoma<\/jats:italic> sp. nr <jats:italic>indicum<\/jats:italic> Forel usually predominated. Some highly aggressive species, notably <jats:italic>Pheidolegeton<\/jats:italic> spp. and <jats:italic>Bothriomyrmex dalyi<\/jats:italic> Forel were localized. <jats:italic>Solenopsis geminata<\/jats:italic> flourished within many fields, not only during the crop season but also throughout dry season fallows where they remained aggressively predatory. Rice plants infested with brown planthopper <jats:italic>Nilaparvata lugens<\/jats:italic> (St\u00e5l) were usually found within a few hours and <jats:italic>S. geminata<\/jats:italic> workers were quickly recruited to <jats:italic>N. lugens<\/jats:italic> aggregates. Predation was usually incomplete and workers began to solicit the few remaining late instar or adult <jats:italic>N. lugens<\/jats:italic> survivors. These oviposited but no second generation nymphs appeared. There was a surge of recruited ants at the time of <jats:italic>N. lugens<\/jats:italic> egg hatch when surviving adults were also killed. Initially, <jats:italic>S. geminata<\/jats:italic> alone killed <jats:italic>N. lugens<\/jats:italic> aggregates less quickly than with the whole predator complex but ultimately its sole effect was as great as that of the complex. Scattered <jats:italic>N. lugens<\/jats:italic> adults, corresponding to numbers that initially colonize rice plants, were eliminated as quickly by <jats:italic>S. geminata<\/jats:italic> alone as by the predator complex. <jats:italic>Tapinoma indicum<\/jats:italic> occurring separately or with <jats:italic>S. geminata<\/jats:italic> on the same plant contributed to predation of <jats:italic>N. lugens<\/jats:italic> especially on young nymphs. <jats:italic>Solenopsis geminata<\/jats:italic> attacked other insects on rice notably leaffolders of which 97% mortality was recorded when they were exposed throughout egg and larval stages. The role of <jats:italic>S. geminata<\/jats:italic> as a predator of upland rice pests is discussed in the context of known biological control of pests of non-rice dryland crops in the tropics and sub-tropics by <jats:italic>S. geminata<\/jats:italic> and other <jats:italic>Solenopsis<\/jats:italic> spp.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1079\/ber2002185","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2003,2,26]],"date-time":"2003-02-26T17:47:22Z","timestamp":1046281642000},"page":"431-437","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["The role of ants, especially the fire ant, <i>Solenopsis geminata<\/i> (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), in the biological control of tropical upland rice pests"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"92","author":[{"given":"M.J.","family":"Way","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"G.","family":"Javier","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"K.L.","family":"Heong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2007,3,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0007485302000500_ref008","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0304-3746(80)90018-9"},{"key":"S0007485302000500_ref010","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/ee\/8.6.976"},{"key":"S0007485302000500_ref009","first-page":"136","volume-title":"Helpful insects, spiders and pathogens","author":"Shepard","year":"1987"},{"key":"S0007485302000500_ref012","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S000748530003282X"},{"key":"S0007485302000500_ref003","first-page":"41","volume-title":"Upland rice insect pests: their ecology, importance and control","author":"Litsinger","year":"1987"},{"key":"S0007485302000500_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BF01867041"},{"key":"S0007485302000500_ref006","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/1940138"},{"key":"S0007485302000500_ref013","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev.en.37.010192.002403"},{"key":"S0007485302000500_ref005","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/jee\/74.1.88"},{"key":"S0007485302000500_ref011","first-page":"4","volume-title":"Los amigos del agricultor no. 5. 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