“Most termites live several meters deep and have no visual perception. However, harvester termites come out at dusk to collect grass, so they have functional eyes that the larvae are able to mimic ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Florida Entomologist Vol. 77, No. 4, Dec., 1994 Keys to Soldier and Winged Adult Termite... Keys ...

These are Orthognathotermes workers, with a soldier in the middle. The guts of the workers -- which contain millions of micro-organisms including thousands of separate species -- can be seen ...

What are nature's best spies? Well, it turns out they just might be fly larvae that can infiltrate termite nests undetected.

According to the team, the relationship between the blow fly larvae and termites appears to be some form of social parasitism ...

Researchers have discovered blow fly larvae with fake termite faces on their rears that enable them to socially integrate into termite colonies in the mountains of Morocco.

Worker termites are about 1/4 inch long and cream-colored, with no eyes. They use chemical signals to communicate with each other. There are also soldier termites with large heads and jaws that ...

Beneath the rocky soil of Morocco, researchers have uncovered a surprising intruder living undetected inside termite colonies ...

Termites, like ants, are social insects that live in colonies. Dividing community labor between soldiers, workers and ...

For the first time ever, an international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint centre of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (the Spanish National ...