Little and big sisters - Macrotermes "sp.2" from Camerun

ItalianTermiteMan

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Here he have a minor worker of a Macrotermes species i pictured in Camerun surrounded by several of her major soldier sibilings. The bite of the latters where extremely painful, not only for the ease their slashing-type mandibles could but trough human skin but also for the cocktail of benzoquinones they abundantly secreted into the wound, which burned very sharply.

This fungus-growing species build large and majestic mounds with a very complex interna architecture; i've also seen their mature queen and it was truly massive!
I'll likely talk more about them in a proper post with a full photogallery (queen included), but for now here's this snippet about this amazing critters.


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