Carpenter ants and some species of termite will rupture glands in a process called autothysis.
Saltz has cited Manny Farber's "termite art" and Joan Didion's "Babylon" as well as other wide ranging systemic metaphors for the art world.
The amber specimens, a soldier, an imago and twelve nymphs are currently housed in the fossil collection of the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California.
James Cameron acquired the movie rights to Brother Termite and John Sayles wrote a script, but the movie has not been produced.
The Sentricon Termite Colony Elimination System is a subterranean termite control product developed and manufactured by Dow AgroSciences.
A few species, notably insects of the orders Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps) and Isoptera (termites) show an extreme form of sociality, involving highly organized societies, with individual organisms specialized for distinct roles.
The action was brought by an Alabama homeowner against Terminix, the previous homeowner's exterminator, after they had found the newly purchased house heavily infested with termites despite the previous owner's assurances that it was free of them.
Termitotrox cupido has been found inside colonies of the termite Hypotermes makhamensis in Cambodia, living on the walls of the chambers that house the fungus garden.
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It was first described by Munetoshi Maruyama in 2012, having been discovered living inside a nest of the termite Hypotermes makhamensis in Cambodia.
Trinervitermes trinervoides is a species of termite from family Termitidae from Africa.
Genes compete with each other, but this occurs within the context of collaboration, as is shown with examples involving mitochondria, bacteria, and termites.