“Most termites live several meters deep and have no visual perception. However, harvester termites come out at dusk to ...

The blowfly larvae bodies have evolved to closely resemble those of the termites, the researchers report February 10 in Current Biology. Inside the nest, termites recognize each other through touch, ...

Nature is full of cunning trickery, but few are as audacious as the blow fly. Imagine not only altering your smell and ...

According to the team, the relationship between the blow fly larvae and termites appears to be some form of social parasitism ...

For the first time ever, an international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint centre of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (the Spanish National ...

When we lifted a stone we found a termite mound with three fly larvae that we had never seen before. The water had probably flooded the deeper layers of the nest and the larvae had emerged onto ...

The nests that they build can reach meters ... In fact, when the termites were confronted with the artificial stimuli provided in the experiments, they always preferred to build at the locations ...