Wednesday, 17 February 2021

Funeral or Feast: How Termites Manage Their Dead | Entomology Today

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In a colony of eastern subterranean termites, as many as 70,000 termites may die every day. Dealing with all those corpses is critical to colony health, and a new study reveals how the primary methods for termite undertakers—burying corpses or eating them—vary by caste.  

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