Mackay and Mackay (2010): Brachyponera chinensis is an Old World species that was introduced into the New World. chinensis have the unique ability to invade habitats in undisturbed hardwood forests.Ī nest of Brachyponera chinensis. Finally, unlike colonies of many invasive ants which dominate urbanized and disturbed habitats, colonies of P. chinensis employs a unique yet relatively slow recruitment process called tandem carrying whereby foraging workers carry nestmates from the nest to the food source which is subsequently retrieved (Guenard and Silverman 2011). In contrast, no trail pheromones have been detected in P. Second, most invasive ants use mass recruitment via trail pheromones to collect food or toxic baits during management attempts. chinensis consumes nectar or hemipteran honeydew.
chinensis is a predatory ant and a termite specialist (Bednar and Silverman 2011). First, while most invasive ants utilize carbohydrate-rich food sources consisting of floral nectar and hemipteran honeydew (Holway et al. chinensis by increasing the amount of habitat suitable to their invasion by 65 % worldwide (Bertelsmeier et al. Furthermore, recent predictive modeling demonstrates that climate change is going to significantly increase the global spread of P. chinensis are displacing Linepithema humile by expanding their colonies early in the season (Spicer-Rice and Silverman 2013). chinensis cause a strong decline in native ant abundance (Guenard and Dunn 2010) and disrupt ant-seed dispersal mutualisms by displacing native keystone ant species (Rodriguez-Cabal et al. chinensis have become widespread in parts of the southeastern US and are now a common pest in urban and natural habitats (Guenard and Dunn 2010). Following the initial introduction, the species remained largely inconspicuous for several decades (McGown 2009). Buczkowski (2016) - The Asian needle ant, Brachyponera chinensis, is an invasive ant species introduced into the United States from Japan in the early 1930s (Smith 1934).
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