Platythyrea conradti workers can detect prey by contact or from a distance, but only relatively small termite workers were mostly detected by contact (Fig. 3).
Working in collaborative groups, students observed a small number of termites and the termites' responses to different inks.
"These termite mounds are far larger than the World Trade Center, if you compare how small termites are to people.
In that study, and most others, it is also important to consider that only a small proportion of termite activity is detected.
If you don't have those supplies available, scoop the termite into a small, sealable plastic bag.
The fluorescent tracer was transported retrogradedly through the neurons of the CNS over 20 24 hours in relatively larger termites (H. sjostedti and M. darwiniensis), or 4 12 hours in the relatively smaller termites (N. koshunensis, C. formosanus and N. takasagoensis).
Methanogenic archaea also inhabit termite guts, but they represent only a small population in the community [ 27- 29].
Thus, for termite samples, we performed assays in 96-deepwell plates with a small magnetic bar in each well, for stirring during incubation (see Materials and method section for details).
However, the extremely vast diversity of termites means that any single study can only probe a small fraction of this diversity, even when resource-intensive approaches, such as large-scale shotgun sequencing of metagenomic DNA, are employed [ 8].
He also had a knack of mending old books, ravished by termites and silver fish, by treating them with spirits, and selling them for a small price.
