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Showing the pellets of two species of Anobird [sic] beetles enlarged. These may readily be distinguished from the pellets of any termite by their long, narrow shape and pointed ends.

Identifier: architectenginee11534sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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llment of the protein and THE ARCHITFCT AND ENGINEER ^ 41 ► FEBRUARY, NINETEEN THIRTY-FOUR vitamin requirements of the termites. Ter-mites may thus be contributing agents inthe maintenance and distribution of wood-destroying fungi though these fungi arenot in any known respect dependent upontermites for their existence. Termites, Hkes bees and ants, are socialinsects hving in colonies. Like bees andants they work together, performing specialtasks for the good of the colony, but, un-like them, they live together continuously instead of interruptedly in the nests orburrows. This colonial habit has given riseto different kinds of individuals or castesfitted structurally to perform definite func-tions in the life of the colony: soldiers fordefense, a king and queen for reproduc-tion, often replaced or supplemented by thesupplemental reproductives, and usually aspecial caste called workers for the collec-tion of food, the care of the king, queen,soldiers, and young, and for the construc-
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Fig. 7—Showing the pellets of two species of Anobird bettles enlarged.These may readily be distinguished from the pellets of any termite by theirlong, narrow shape and pointed ends. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^ 42 ► FEBRUARY. NINETEEN THIRTY-FOUR tion of the nest, burrows, exits, tunnels,towers, and exploratory extensions of theburrows. The workers are aided in theselabors by the immature stages of the othercasts, known as nymphs. Indeed, in thesimpler termite colonies, there is no spe-cialized w^orker caste, and the work of thecolony is accomplishd by the nymphs onlv.(Fig.6.) In the early stage in the development ofa colony of termites a single primary king and queen remain as the reproductive pairthroughout the life of the colony or for aprolonged period. The presence of thisprimary pair in the colony seems to in-hibit the development of the reproductivefunction in all of the offspring, both maleand female, while resident in the colony.The alates become functional reproductiveso

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