Open AccessTHE EFFECT OF SEPARATION BY “PAPERING” ON CASTE RATIOS IN NASUTITERMES EXITIOSUS (HILL) (ISOPTERA)
Author(s) -
McMahan Elizabeth A.,
Watson J. A. L.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1977.tb00138.x
Subject(s) - alate , biology , nest (protein structural motif) , caste , ecdysis , separation (statistics) , larva , ecology , zoology , instar , botany , statistics , pest analysis , mathematics , biochemistry , linguistics , homoptera , philosophy , aphididae
The separation by “papering” of Nasutitermes exitiosus from broken mound material provides a sample of termites containing higher proportions of small soldiers, second to fifth stage large workers, and alates, and lower proportions of larvae, first stage workers, presoldiers, and workers near to ecdysis, than occur in the termites that remain in the mound material. These differences can be correlated with differences in the behaviour of the various castes and stages when the nest is damaged.