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Emigration and Colony Splitting Behaviour of House-infesting Ant,
Paratrechina longicornis
Nur Syahida Wadhihah binti Kamarudin
Supervisor: Dr. Norasmah
Bachelor of Applied Science
(Biodiversity Conservation and Management)
School of Marine and Environmental Sciences
House-infesting ants are easily adapted to various type of environment.
Emigration of house-infesting ant happens when the nest become destroys and
the colony will emigrates to find new site. They may also split to two or more
colonies. Other than nuisance, some house-infesting ants are known to carry
pathogens such as Salmonella. In this study, species ant Paratrechina
longicornis was used as a model as they are easily found in Universiti Malaysia
Terengganu. The finding of this study was, the colony immigrated to the new
nests in just about one hour. Meanwhile, for the splitting behaviour, the colony
with the higher number of workers split forming two colonies. To produce new
and highly effective control products, it is essential to understand how fast the
ant colonies emigrate and how they divide their colonies when being disturbed,
so that we can produce new efficient product that can act quick before the
colonies could emigrate and split then invade new side.
1740 | UMT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DAY 2018