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Why Termites Lick Their Own Queens to Death
It sounds like a twisted fairy tale, but it’s real insect science. In some termite colonies, the queen is literally groomed to death by her own subjects and it's all part of colony survival.
An egg-shaped Microcerotermes mound. Although termites like these were present in the replanted rainforests, they worked more slowly than in old growth forest.
Researchers have identified a chemical that kills about 95 percent of a western drywood termite colony without off-target effects on mammals.
Termites—infamous for their ability to destroy wood—are rarely welcomed into rainforests that have been painstakingly ...