Termites eat wood and can enter homes. People often ask, “do termites bite humans?”. While rare, the answer is yes. Th ...

This potentially new species has evolved remarkable adaptations to evade the colony’s soldier termites, which swiftly dismember intruders. Its survival tricks include a termite-head-shaped ...

Well, turns out that it takes quite a bit of work to pull it off. See, Termites are not exactly welcoming to intruders. Soldier termites quickly dismember anything unfamiliar that dares to enter ...

The aim of this masked seduction is to trick harvester termites into thinking the fly larvae are part of their colony, according to research published in the journal Current Biology. Soldier ...

Soldier termites typically kill colony intruders on site, but disguised larvae live among the soldiers without any problems and are granted full access to the termite mound's food chamber. The ...

Scientists believe this allows the larvae to sneak into termite colonies to steal their food, all undetected. Soldier termites are known for aggressively guarding their colonies, attacking any ...