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If you will keep a colony from them, contact me please, I will like to have this termites myself :P
i myself have a termite colony and relly so long as you keep the humidity levels at the reight % and provid food they should do just fine. if your termites are subterriean termites then you must provide termite cemint :P aka mud so that they can make mud tunnles cuz if they say out of contact with moist soil for to long they will dry up and die and from what i know you dont have to get any reproductive termites to have a colony just get nymphs the more you have the better you chances are of them molting into a secondary reproductive pair this happens because unlike ants wich all workers are female termites (at least the ones i have) are equal ammounts of male and female and unless you have soldires (becomming a soldire is a terminal molting phase once they are there they cant go back) even if they are only workers the workers with the absence of a queen and king will start to molt into nymphs and the nymphs will start to molt into secondary reproductives meaning that they never got the the phase of there life were the gained wings and flue away but started to grow wings but then a secondary queen mated with a secondary king a there you have it a secondary reproductive pair to add to the egg and worker count some times a colony can become so big that the secondary pairs may even split off from tere parent colony and become there own indenpendent colony hope that helps sry for any spelling errors :) i just love termites ;p
Thanks ooo :-)))
Where can i found nynphs and workers?
they at least for eastern subterranean termites nymphs should be in with the workers and i know these are not your termites but this site should help a little http://ohioline.osu.edu/b1209/index.html i have read it like a hundred times ;p
What specie did you have? Here in Italy there have only two rare species...Kalotermes flavikollis have only soldier caste and workers are nymphs...but i don't know where can i found a nest...
How to realize artificial nests?
well right now i have eastern subterranean termites and i have them in a bolw i found in my kitchen they cant climb up the sides so that should be fine for them untill i find an terriaum to put them in but as for well your species looks a lot like mine i could not find anything on your species but if they are any thing like mine you should only have to keep them watered and as to find them idk i accendtly stumbeled on mine while looking for carpenter ants but if you do find a nest more than likely there will be workers out exploring around the enterence to the nest or a lot of wings but as to an artficial nest i am still working on that my self i asume that you could use an ant nest for termites like a y-tong that is keeped extreamly moist but other than that idk they might be able to break through the y-tong so i sugest if you use that to keep it sealed
OK...thanks...For the feeding? Cellulose may be good for Kalotermes?
When i find workers, i can put them in a test-tube for ants?
yes cellulose shold do fine as well as the test tube but make sure to keep it humid but unlike ants i think termites are veggitarians but i am not intirely sure on that
hey Sphecomyrmex did you find any termites yet?
Oh yes, today i've found two reals of Reticulitermes lucifugus. I don't know if they're male and female, or both males or females. I've put them in a test tube. I want to put them in a nest that allows an easy observation...Can i make a nest with compensated-wood? Will they dig the nest in the wood? What about air umidity for this specie?
I've looked for Kalotermes'nynphs, but i haven't found any nest yet :-(