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HOLLYWOOD — Elana Kohlhagen and her family have lived in South Florida for a decade; but about once a year, they get some unwanted visitors: termites. ; "It's gross," she said. ; Kohlhagan was sitting in her living room with her family when she saw a group of them flying around her ceiling lights and little pellets around her home.
But when the Formosan mated with the Asian termites, their colony produced about 150 termites in a year. The researchers are currently replicating the experiment to see if they get the same...
BACKGROUND Mutual interactions, including reciprocal food sharing and grooming between chlorantraniliprole- and fipronil-treated, and untreated Asian subterranean termites, Coptotermes gestroi (Was...
drywood termites have been joined by two species of subterranean vermin, the Asian and the Formosan termite, both of which are spreading throughout the state. Drywood termites have been...
Apparently, the male Asian termites prefer Formosan females to that of their own species – a fact that, according to Professor Su, is due to pheromones. “Both species probably use [the]...
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Asian subterranean termite (Coptotermes gestroi) soldier in carton nest. C. gestroi is a wood-feeding termite. Image credit: Thomas Chouvenc Study: Termites' sensitivity to temperature affects glob...
Asian needle ants prey on termites and other insectsThe third, and potentially greatest, negative impact posed by the Asian needle ant is its potential to devastate a natural environment by...