This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Termites are social cockroaches. Because non-termite cockroaches are larger than basal termite lineages, which themselves include large ...

Researchers have completed a comprehensive analysis of the head width of over 1500 modern and fossilized species of termites and determined that their size isn't shrinking at a geological timescale.

Termites, found on every continent except Antarctica, are often referred to as "silent destroyers." These small, social insects live in colonies and spend their lives primarily in search of ...

Termites are social cockroaches that split from their sister cockroach group around 150 to 170 million years ago. A popular, yet previously untested, theory suggests that, after this split, they very ...