Single Site Nesting Termites
Reproduction and life cycles
- single developmental line ‘winged line'
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all individuals can eventually mature into winged reproductives
Nesting behaviour
- Entire life of colony is inside a single piece of wood
- Unable to burrow through soil
- Small queens
- Small colony sizes (< 000s of termites)
- Colony lifespan related to size of wood
Examples:
‘drywood' termites - Cryptotermes spp. and Kalotermes spp.
‘dampwood' termites - Porotermes adamsoni
E.g. Cryptotermes, Kalotermes and Porotermes
