Researchers from the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology flew over 192 square miles of Kruger National Park in South Africa, and used a scanning method called LIDAR to map 40,000 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Pest experts say this year’s termite season could be worse, with bigger swarms and in more areas. “Every year, the termites get a little bit worse,” Jacob Cohn, entomologist ...

Odontotermes obesus is one of the termite species that grows fungi, called Termitomyces, in their mounds. Workers collect dead leaves, wood, and grass to stack them in underground fungus gardens ...

Private boats are fueling the spread of highly destructive invasive termites in Florida, according to a new study by the University of Florida. Three species of the wood-eating bugs can live within ...

The University of Florida has confirmed that a new hybrid of termites, from the Asian subterranean and Formosan termites, are spreading in the state. Researchers say the fusion of these two termites ...

Several insect species, including ants, honeybees and termites, live in highly organized societies, also known as social insect colonies. Insects living in these colonies can take on different roles, ...