The discovery of a 34000-year-old mound in South Africa sheds light on the insects' role in combating climate change.
1 month ago

Have you been dealing with pesky termites swarming in or around your home? It's that time of year when those Formosan subterranean termites...
7 months ago

New research suggests that their large dirt mounds are crucial to stopping deserts from spreading into semi-arid ecosystems.
117 months ago

Calcareous termite mounds offer a mechanism to sequester CO 2 through dissolution and leaching of soil carbonate-bicarbonate to groundwater.
6 months ago

Princeton University research suggests that termite mounds can help prevent the spread of deserts into semi-arid ecosystems and agricultural...
117 months ago

True predators are characterised by capturing a number of prey items during their lifetime and by being generalists. Some true predators are...
110 months ago

Drywood termites have made more oceanic voyages than any other family of termites. They've crossed oceans at least 40 times in the past 50 million years.
30 months ago

When you think about West African savannas, elephants and lions may come to mind. But … termites? Brianna Lind was studying abroad in South Africa as an...
89 months ago

New research published in the journal Science suggests that termite nests are crucial to stopping the spread of deserts.
117 months ago

Here we identified the gene families of CAZymes in publicly available termite genomes and analyzed the evolution of abundant gene families.
13 months ago