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3 days ago · Unlike bees and termites, the colonies of this species of flatworm are not underground or in a tree hollow, but inside the body of a live snail. The parasites don’t kill the snail, but instead siphon off nutrients for years as they pump out free-swimming clones that search for fish, the flatworms’ next host in their complex life cycle.
3 days ago · The best and easiest solution is to place bait traps near ant paths so that they take the poison back to the colony. What not to do: Beware sprays, Brown says. “There are some ant species that if you spray them, that just breaks up the colony even further. Instead of having one colony, then you’ll have five.”.
5 days ago · Kings and queens of termites are among record holders in this respect: indirect estimates as well as empirical data suggest that they may live for more than one or even up to two decades, thus exceeding manifold the life expectancies of nonreproducing termite castes or related solitary insects (e.g., Korb & Thorne, 2017; Koubová et al., 2021 ...
3 days ago · Unlike bees and termites, the colonies of this species of flatworm are not underground or in a tree hollow, but inside the body of a live snail. The parasites don't kill the snail, but instead ...
2 days ago · Unlike bees and termites, the colonies of this species of flatworm are not underground or in a tree hollow, but inside the body of a live snail. The parasites don't kill the snail, but instead ...
5 days ago · Termites’ wood-heavy diet offers little nitrogen, a critical nutrient for growth and reproduction. But their exoskeletons are nitrogen rich, and new research shows that eating shed exoskeletons after molting is a core strategy for recycling nitrogen throughout the termite colony in species such as the Asian subterranean termite ( Coptotermes ...
4 days ago · How do some of the most voracious subterranean termite species live and remain active around a house? They have a knack for “smelling death.” In the United States, there are two primary ways to protect a house from subterranean termites: non-repellent liquid termiticides or baits. A groundbreaking study from the University of Florida Institute of […]
