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As of 2019 Raid Ant & Roach Killer contains pyrethroids, imiprothrin, and cypermethrin; [3] other products contain tetramethrin and prallethrin as active ingredients. [4] Raid Flying Insect Killer, a spray, uses piperonyl butoxide and D-phenothrin. [5] The brand was sold as Ridsect for Malaysian market.
The Neotropical army ant Eciton burchellii has an estimated 350 to 500 animal associates, the most of any one species known to science. [31] It has been speculated that the nocturnal foraging of some army ant species is done to reduce kleptoparasitism by birds, since the bird kleptoparasites of army ants are diurnal. [12]
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Polyergus rufescens is a species of slave-making ant native to southern Europe and parts of Asia, commonly referred to as the European Amazon ant or as the slave-making ant. It is an obligatory social parasite , unable to feed itself or look after the colony and reliant on ants of another species to undertake these tasks.
Polyergus lucidus Mayr, 1870 – eastern United States, southern Ontario; Polyergus longicornis Smith, 1947 – southeastern United States; Polyergus montivagus Wheeler, 1915 – New England states to northern Florida in eastern United States, southern Ontario, Canada and west to Wisconsin and northern New Mexico, United States
In some parts of this ant's range, colonies are used as a natural form of pest control. Crops that have been protected in this way have included cowpea, [12] cashew, citrus, mango, coconut, cocoa and coffee. [13] The oldest written record of the use of these ants to control pests is their use in China in 304 AD to control pests in citrus. [13]