Termites

Do you know termites?
I would like to tell you little stories about termites.

In this semester, i'm taking Taxonomic Class. In this class i'm learning about insect identification steps, insects taxonomy and the part of insects body. Of course that's not easy. There are so many part. Wings, legs, thorax, abdomen, mouthpart and so on.

This week, the subject is termites and dermaptera. From this class i learned that there are many kind of termites. We learned 3 families of termites. They are Kalotermitidae, Rhnotermitidae and Termitidae. To identificate the family of termites, we need to know first the stages of the termites. We have to know the termites is a soldiers or the reproductions stage (alate). For the soldiers stages, we need to check first the head of the termites. Look for the small hole in its head. Just be careful, because the hole is very small. In the identification book, the hole called fontanel. From the fontanel we can find the family of the termites. It's different with alate's stages. Termites in alate's stages have a wngs to fly and find their mates. So, the Identification of alate's satges is stated from the wings venation.

Well, that's really fun playing with the insect.
I like lerning termites :)