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Termite

Description:

Termites and termite hive/mound. Box containing several flattened boxes turned out to be the home of termites.

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3 Comments

freelancing
freelancing 11 years ago

They are pretty gross... no surprise they're related to roaches. *shudder*

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 11 years ago

Free lancing,here is a spotting you helped me out with. Scroll down to see the comments. It has some links which might be of use to you.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/103...

MargaritaOrlova
MargaritaOrlova 11 years ago

Thanks for your beautiful spotting, but termites are actually not Hymenoptera. Despite their highly developed sociality, they genetically more similar to cockroaches and therefore included in the order Blattodea.

freelancing
Spotted by
freelancing

Denton, Texas, USA

Spotted on Apr 6, 2012
Submitted on May 1, 2012

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