An international team of scientists says all-female termite colonies from Japan are the result of accidental hybridization, and that their highly robust nature makes them an ecological threat. A new ...

Termites form complex societies like bees and ants do, but with a crucial difference: Unlike the mostly-female bee and ant colonies, termites usually have a 50/50 mix of males and females. A king and ...

Even after an insecticide bait weakens Formosan subterranean termites, a neighboring colony will invade the same area and meet the identical lethal fate, new research shows. The research finding is ...

Non-monogamy and colony inheritance are the leading causes of conflict among termites, but these social cockroaches prove you don't always need a big brain to get to the bottom of even the curliest of ...

Big news in the insect world, scientists finally know why the all-female termite colonies exist. It’s a little gnarly and involves termite clones. Back in 2018, scientists discovered all-female ...

Researchers from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with colleagues from the Faculty of Tropical AgriScience of the Czech University ...

Learn the difference between termites and carpenter ants, including how they look, the damage they cause, and what Southern ...

Two of the most destructive termite species in the world are mating in South Florida, producing hybrid colonies that are growing at twice the normal rate of other termites, scientists said. Asian and ...

HOUSTON — Swarms of winged bugs are invading Houston-area neighborhoods from Fifth Ward to the suburb of Baytown, Texas. The insects are an aggressive species called Formosan termites, and pest ...