Similarity among eucalyptus planted areas based on leaf-cutting ant nest sizes

Techniques for leaf-cutting ant control have been investigated in literature due to the importance of damage they cause agriculture. Plantations with large territorial extensions, which can be contiguous or not, are usually subdivided into local administration collect data determine frequencies and area occupied by nests. The objective this work was build a relationship similarities among different geographical regions using frequency size nests applying Information Bottleneck method principal component analysis. approach applied ants genus Atta cultivated Eucalyptus spp. forests São Paulo State, Brazil. results showed similar that not geographically close, regarding occurrence With information, administrators will able coordinate more precisely allocation bait, material workers vast territories, avoiding resources waste.