A SURVEY OF ANTS SPECIES FOUND WITHIN UMARU MUSA YAR'ADUA UNIVERSITY, KATSINA CAMPUS, KATSINA STATE
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Ants are one of the most highly evolved and dominant insect groups. They are the largest family of insect’s interns of the diversity of species and certainly sheer numbers of individuals. The aim of this research was to investigate the abundance of ant species in Umaru Musa Yar'adua University, Katsina (UMYUK) campus. A total of 174 ants were collected within 12 nests in the surveyed plots. The nest size characteristics such as range, mean and standard deviation were determined as1.74-10.28m, 55.58 and 2.78, respectively. Site 3 was relatively smaller (1.74min diameter) than site 6 (10.28m in diameter) . The results of the number of entrances characteristics highlighted that site 6 had1 entrances, and site 4 had up to13 entrances. Surface temperature characteristics results showed that, site 8 and 9 had the lowest temperature of 31°C and site 1 had the highest temperature of 37°C. Based on the analysis, it is clear that Monomorium ergatogyna Wheeler was the only ant species identified in all the sites surveyed in UMYUK.
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