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Author: Hannah Davis

Post-moult allogrooming

December 30, 2016

This will be the first of several posts featuring aspects of termite biology. Like all arthropods, eastern subterranean termites (Reticulitermes flavipes) are covered with a rigid exoskeleton and need to moult in order to grow, a process also known as ecdysis. I won’t go into the details here, but here’s the short version: the old … More Post-moult allogrooming

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