Problem 2: The invasive Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, outcompetes native ants. (It's also great at invading your ki

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Problem 2 The Invasive Argentine Ant Linepithema Humile Outcompetes Native Ants It S Also Great At Invading Your Ki 1 (311.81 KiB) Viewed 90 times

Problem 2: The invasive Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, outcompetes native ants. (It's also great at invading your kitchen.) An unusual feature of the Argentine ant is that its colonies do not fight with each other, but instead, peacefully merge together to form massive "supercolonies". 2.1 Using the terminology of the Lotka-Volterra competition model (i.e, naming a variable and saying what it represents), explain how the Argentine ant's lack of intraspecific aggression might make it an effective interspecific competitor against other ant species (1-2 sentences). (1 pt) 2.2 Though Argentine ants outcompete native ants near a well-watered suburban lawn or garden, native ants are able to outcompete Argentine ants in very dry locations. Describe an explanation for this reversal of outcomes-again, using the terminology of the Lotka-Volterra competition model (1-2 sentences). (1 pt)