Termite Identification

Every termite colony cannot exist without a termite queen. Often mistaken as a white ant, the queen termite is white in color, and has a long elongated body that produces as much as thousands of eggs everyday.

The termite queen can be impregnated by different male termite. Even so, every colony will have only one specific male reproductive, the termite king.

Queen termites can grow as long as almost ten times her regular size when pregnant. This makes it harder for pregnant queen termites to get around in her colony, forage for food and feed herself. Fortunately, the termite queen has thousands of constituents - worker termites - who does the foraging of wood and who feed the termite queen. And when the queen termites need to move, she employs the help of hundreds or thousands of worker termites. Interestingly, the workers are rewarded with juice that the termite queen secretes from her posterior end. This way, all the worker termites can replenish their energy after having exhausted it on moving the queen for a few inches.