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It is possible to keep termites? How to keep these insects?
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Depends on the species, many require vast amounts of space, and allot of depth to construct their nest, a smaller growing species may be possible i guess, I dont know much about Termites, except they are arch enemies of Ants, so I'm afraid I'm on the Ants side, and dont like termites :P lol
More ants are inquiline in termitaria, they would be friend too :)
Don't ants love termites? ( to eat) or do termites sometimes fight back?
Termites also have a cast of solders so yeah, they do fight back.
More ants (ad es. Pachycondyla and Dorylus) eat termites. Moreover, some species of ants are inquiline in termitaria. Camponotus specie C is very diffused in termitaria of more species of Termitidae. These ants defence termitaria and they fight with other ants that attck termites. Ants could be parassite too for termites.
Higher termites have two possible castes of soldiers: normal soldiers and nasutes. Primitive termites don't have workers, only soldiers.
I've found two queen of Reticulitermes lucifugus, and i anwered if would be possible to keep them.
Termites are with Cockroaches, Mantids and Crickets and some other insect colected to Isoptera. Scientist thinks, that termites have better nest architecture than Ants, from my opinion yes, but Termites are in evolution back from ants, ants are just more eusocail.
We know two base categories of termites- advanced termites and below termites. I don´t know what was this sorted from, but here is one serious think- some genuses of termites have special castes, from which can be kept new queen/male or soldier and back! If I m not making a mistake, this castes are called pseudergates. Pseudergates are typical for Below termites. In each member of each termite specie are living ,,bacterias" which are helping to a termite with decomposition of cellulose. The head food of termites is cellulose from trees/wood and they can eat building wood too!
In South Europe are living species of Reticulitermes (lucifugus and others) and Kalotermes flavicollis (I don´t know about more species of this genus). Kalotermes are bigger, majors have more than 1cm I had read. Termites must be kept with not just a queen!- they need have a male/king in the nest too. Quee gets just sme sperms from him when they are copulating, and when she spend them, he will copulate her and inseminate her new sperms... So you need male for your queens. I know about 4 people/ant keepers, which had keept termites, but with no good results. Termites had died after some time, but my friends didn´t saw a queen in their colony so I m not really sure that if are termites not able to be kept in termicarium (lol) or not.
I know:
- they need bigger humidity, about 70% of soil humidity is allright
- they need much cellulose- wood for food
- with cellulose they must have some insects one time to week
- if you make a mixture of wood- soil and you keep termites in it, don´t forget to make some circulation of it, because termites can be attackted by bacterias and blights.....
So this about keeping termites... Good luck with your queens, but you will must get males for each them separately and be careful with giving them together, they must love together first :P :P :P
Sorry from my bad English :D
Messorus
Thanks very much ;-) don't worry, I've a male too ;-)
Reticulitermes are primitive termites that don't have queens and kings, but only anfigonic female and male. They have soldiers, and workers too. Kalotermes don't have workers.
Thanks, i will try to keep them ;-)
I know someone who kept (tried to kept) them. It didn't worked out for him but you can always give it a go. (keep us informed about this :) )
Make sure you'll post lots of pics, so we can do the "ooooohs" and the "aaaaaahs". :D