Brown, B.V., P. Folgarait, and L.E. Gilbert. 2003. A new species of Pseudacteon attacking Solenopsis fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Argentina. Sociobiology 41: 685-688.

*Brown, B.V. and Morrison, L.W. 1999. A new Pseudacteon (Diptera: Phoridae) from North America that parasitizes native fire ants, Solenopsis geminata (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 92, 308-311.

Consoli, F., C. Wuellner, S. Vinson, L. Gilbert. 2001. Immature development of Pseudacteon tricuspis (Diptera: Phoridae), an endoparasitoid of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals Ent. Soc. Am. 94:97-109.

Gilbert, L.E. and R.J.W. Patrock. 2002. Phorid flies for the biological suppression of imported fire ants in Texas: Region specific challenges, recent advances and future prospects. Southwestern Entomologist. Suppl. No. 25:7-17.

Folgarait, P.J., O.A. Bruzzone, and L.E. Gilbert .2002. Development of Pseudacteon cultellatus (Diptera: Phoridae) on Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis richteri fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Environ. Entomol. 31:403-410.

Folgarait, P.J., O.A. Bruzzone, R.J.W. Patrock, and L.E. Gilbert. 2002. Developmental rates and host specificity for Pseudacteon parasitoids (Diptera: Phoridae) of fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Argentina. J. Econ. Entomol. 95:1151-1158.

Kaspari, M. 2000. Do imported fire ants impact canopy arthropods? Evidence from simple arboreal pitfall traps. The Southwestern Naturalist 45: 118-122.

Mehdiabadi, N.J. and L.E. Gilbert. 2002. Colony-level impacts of parasitoid flies on fire ants. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269:1695-1699.

*Morrison, L.W. 1999. Indirect effects of phorid fly parasitoids on interspecific competition between fire ants. Oecologia 121:113-122.

Morrison, L.W. 2000. Mechanisms of interspecific competition bewteen an invasive and two native fire ant species. Oikos 90:238-252.

Morrison, L.W. 2000. Mechanisms of Pseudacteon parasitoid (Diptera: Phoridae) effects on exploitative and interference competition in host Solenopsis ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93:841-849.

Morrison, L.W. 2000. Biology of Pseudacteon (Diptera: Phoridae) ant parasitoids and their potential to control imported Solenopsis fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Recent Res. Devel. Entomol. 3:1-13.

Morrison, L.W. 2002. Long-term impacts of an arthropod-community invasion by the imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta. Ecology 83:2337-2345.

*Morrison, L.W. and L.E. Gilbert. 1998. Parasitoid-host relationships when host size varies: the case of Pseudacteon flies and Solenopsis fire ants. Ecological Entomology 23:409-416.

Morrison, L.W. and L.E. Gilbert. 1999. Host specificity in two additional Pseudacteon spp. (Diptera: Phoridae), parasitoids of Solenopsis fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Florida Entomologist 82:404-409.

Morrison, L.W., E.A. Kawazoe, R. Guerra, and L.E. Gilbert. 1999. Phenology and dispersal in Pseudacteon flies (Diptera: Phoridae), parasitoids of Solenopsis fire ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 92:198-207.

Morrison, L.W., E.A. Kawazoe, R. Guerra, L.E. Gilbert. 2000. Ecological interactions of Pseudacteon parasitoids and Solenopsis ant hosts: environmental correlates of activity and effects on interspecific competition. Ecological Entomology 25:433-444.

*Morrison, L.W., S.D. Porter, and L.E. Gilbert. 1999. Sex ratio variation as a function of host size in Pseudacteon (Diptera: Phoridae) parasitoid flies. Biol. J. Linnean Soc. 66:257-267.

Passera, L., S. Aron, E. L. Vargo and L. Keller. 2001. Queen control of sex ratio in fire ants. Science 293: 1308-1310.

Shoemaker, D. D., K. G. Ross, L. Keller, E. L. Vargo and J. H. Werren. 2000. Wolbachia infections in native and introduced populations of fire ants (Solenopsis spp.). Insect Molecular Biology 9: 661-673.

Smith, C.R. and L.E. Gilbert. Differential attraction of a parasitoid to dead host ants. Accepted.

Vargo, E. L. 1998. Primer pheromones in ants. In: Chemical Communication in Social Insects. M. Breed, R. K. Vander Meer, K. Espelie and M. Winston (eds.). Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado pp 293-313.

Vargo, E.L. 1999. Reproductive development and ontogeny of queen pheromone production in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta. Physiol Entomol. 24: 370-376.

Vargo, E. L. and C. D. Hulsey. 2000. Multiple glandular origins of queen pheromones in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta. Journal of Insect Physiology 46: 1151-1159.

Wuellner, C.T. 2000. Male aggregation by Solenopsis richteri Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and associated mating behavior in Argentina. J. Insect Behavior 13:751-756.

Wuellner, C.T., C.G. Dall'Aglio-Holvorcem, W.W. Benson, and L.E. Gilbert. 2002. Phorid fly (Pseudacteon spp) oviposition behavior and fire ant (Solenopsis invicta: Formicidae) reaction to attack differ according to phorid species. Annals Entomol. Soc. Am. 95:257-266.

Wuellner, C.T. and J.B. Saunders. 2002. Circadian and circannual patterns of activity and territory shifts: comparing a native ant (Solenopsis geminata, Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with its exotic, invasive congener (S. invicta) and its parasitoids (Pseudacteon spp., Diptera: Phoridae) at a central Texas site. Annals Entomol. Soc. Am. 95: 54-60.

Submitted/In Review:

Folgarait, P.J., O.A. Bruzzone, and L.E. Gilbert. Seasonal patterns of activity among species of ant parasitoid flies in central Argentina explained by analysis of climatic variable (Pseudacteon: Phoridae). Environmental Entomol. Biological Control Section.

Folgarait, P.J., Lawrence E. Gilbert, and Octavio A. Bruzzone. Studies of host ant acceptability and suitability for some Argentinean species of Pseudacteon (Diptera: Phoridae), parasitoids of worker fire ants, genus Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Econ. Entomol.

Folgarait, P. J., O. Bruzzone, S. Porter, M. A. Pesquero, y L. Gilbert. Biogeography and macroecology of phorid flies that attack fire ants in southeastern Brazil and Argentina.

  Mehdiabadi, E.A. Kawazoe, and L.E. Gilbert. Specialized phorid fly parasitoids of invasive fire ants indirectly improve exploitative but not interference competition of a native ant. Oecologia.

Morrison, L. Spatiotemporal variation in antlion density and impacts on ant and general arthropod foraging behavior. Ecological Entomol.

Wuellner, C.T. and C. Crusco. Phorid fly presence interferes with midden work in the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Insect Behavior.

In Prep:

Mehdiabadi, N.J., E.A. Kawazoe, and L.E. Gilbert. Effects of parasitism on task allocation and task prioritization in the red imported fire ant. Animal Behaviour.

Mehdiabadi, N.J., E.A. Kawazoe, and L.E. Gilbert. A fully factorial analysis of the ecological impacts of parasitism and competition on foraging in an invasive ant. Ecology.

Mehdiabadi, N.J., R.J. Patrock, and L.E. Gilbert. A field method for releasing adult phorid fly parasitoids in the genus Pseudacteon (Diptera: Phoridae) for their attack on the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

Patrock, R.J., L.E. Gilbert, and N.J. Mehdiabadi. Pitfall sampling of ants and other arthropods in the South Texas Plains.

Wuellner, C.T., S.P. Porter, and L.E. Gilbert. Eclosion, mating, and grooming behavior of the parasitoid fly Pseudacteon curvatus Borgmeier (Phoridae).

Wuellner, C.T., R.J. Patrock, C.R. Smith, C.G. Dall'Aglio-Holvorcem, and L.E. Gilbert. Disturbed mound recovery time of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), is decreased in the presence of phorid flies (Pseudacteon spp).

*Final publication prepared by author(s) while funded by FARMAAC: research previously funded by other source.

Wackford de Muñoz, K.M., D.H. Feener, Jr., M.R. Orr, and L.E. Gilbert. The dominance/discovery trade-off: Mechanisms of competition between the ants Solenopsis invicta and Camponotus rufipes. Ms in prep.

de Campos, R. R. 2000. Interactive competition between Solenopsis invicta Buren (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) and Camponotus rufipes Fabricius (Formicidae: Formicinae). Dissertation. Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul. (In Portuguese).

Folgarait, P.J. and L.E. Gilbert. 1999. Phorid parasitoids affect foraging activity of Solenopsis richteri under different availability of food in Argentina. Ecological Entomology.24:163-173.

Gilbert, L.E. and L.W. Morrison. 1997. Patterns of host specificity in Pseudacteon parasitoid flies (Diptera, Phoridae) that attack Solenopsis fire ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Environmental Entomology. 26:1149-1154.

Kaspari, M. 1999. Do imported fire ants impact canopy arthropods? Evidence from simple arboreal pitfall traps.

Morrison, L.W., C.G.D. Holvorcem, and L.E. Gilbert. 1997. Oviposition behavior and development of Pseudacteon flies (Diptera: Phoridae), parasitoids of Solenopsis fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Environmental Entomology 26:716-724.

Orr, M.R. and S.H. Seike. 1998. Parasitoids deter foraging by Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) in their native habitat in Brazil. Oecologia 117:420-425.

Orr, M.R., S.H. Seike, and L.E. Gilbert. 1997. Foraging ecology and patterns of diversification in dipteran parasitoids of fire ants in south Brazil, genus Pseudacteon (Phoridae). Ecological Entomology. 22:305-314.

Orr, M.R., S.H. Seike, W.W. Benson, and L.E. Gilbert. 1995. Flies suppress fire ants. Nature 373:292-293.

Vargo, E.L. 1997. Poison gland of queen fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) is the source of a primer pheromone. Naturwissenschaften 84:507-510.

Vargo, E.L. 1998. Primer pheromones in ants, 293-313. In: Robert K. Vander Meer, Michael D. Breed, Karl E. Espelie, and Mark L. Winston (eds). Pheromone Communication in Social Insects. Ants, Wasps, Bees, and Termites. Westview, Boulder. pp. 293-313.