A Simple Method to Observe, Trap, and Prepare Large Numbers of Subterranean Termites for Laboratory and Field Experiments1

1973/08/01 by Minoru Tamashiro, Jack K. Fujii, Po-Yung Lai +1 · 123 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biology #Coptotermes #Ecology #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Microbiology #Nest (protein structural motif) #Pathogen #Physics #Plant Parasitism and Resistance #Plant and animal studies #Rhinotermitidae #Trap (plumbing)

paper · doi:10.1093/ee/2.4.721

published in Environmental Entomology 2(4), 721-722 (Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

In studies of the microbial control of the Formosan subterranean termite. Coptotermes formosanas Shiraki, it was found that the mere introduction of even a highly virulent pathogen directly into the galleries of the termite was not sufficient to initiate epizootics in the colonies. Colonies of C. formosanus in Hawaii are very large and extensive with galleries radiating out 50 m or more (Zimmerman 1948; Bess 1970). Therefore, because of the distances involved, the pathogen could not be spread easily from the exposed gallery to the main nest.

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