Raw dataset Predation of Asian weaver ant on Metisa plana bagworms
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Field observations and monitoring of the foraging-predation of Oecophylla smaragdina major workers on pupae-larvae of the invasive bagworms species Metisa plana in oil palm plantations in Malaysia. The relationship between foraging-predation behaviors with air temperature AT and relative humidity RH was examined as well. A large plantation comparative biological control strategy trial with trunk systemic chemical injection to monitor the monthly, yearly yield productivity of Fresh Fruit Bunches FFB, the quality of fruit by the Oil Extraction Rate OER and the monthly, yearly incomes-profit: assessment of the effectiveness between both treatment methods. The Biological control strategy by weaver ants BC ant was significantly much higher, hence more effective than chemical trunk injection for all the variables of the study: Monthly-yearly yield; OER and Incomes. This is the first study ever conducted using the Asian weaver ants colonies towards the control of M. plana in a critically affected-infested large oil palm plantations in Asia.
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Institute of Research Management and Services, University of Malaya
project no. PS320-2010B to EXELIS MOISE PIERRE
Institute of Research Management and Services, University of Malaya
AFR (Frontier Science) project no. RP016A-14-AFR to EXELIS MOISE PIERRE & Azarae Hj Idris
Institut Pengurusan dan Pemantauan Penyelidikan, Universiti Malaya
(Sustainability & Biodiversity) UMRG project no. RG187/12SUS to EXELIS MOISE PIERRE & Azarae Hj Idris
Collectivite Territoriale de la Martinique
European Union Feder funds under Doctoral scholarship to EXELIS MOISE PIERRE by the local government authority of Martinique Island Caribbean (Meso America))
Institut Pengurusan dan Pemantauan Penyelidikan, Universiti Malaya
Project PV078-2011B to EXELIS MOISE PIERRE
COLLECTIVITE TERRITORIALE DE LA MARTINIQUE
Doctoral scholarship for EXELIS MOISE PIERRE from Martinique Island