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29/10/2019

Happy Anniversary Karl-max Kudakwashe Manditsera and Tendai Randazha Manditsera. It was a pleasure capturing the event.

Congratulations Tendai & Kuda
Venue: King Fisher
Couple : Tendai Randazha Manditsera & Karl-max Kudakwashe Manditsera
Decor: LeClasse Events
Invitation cards, Thank you cards, and Tables numbers: Lesley Photography

10/08/2019

To learn more about edible insects, come join us at the 1st African Conference on Edible Insects, 14-16August 2019 (Monomotapa Hotel, Harare).

Social Life of Insects: Termites (Majuru)

Social insects are those which live in colonies and their members show some kind of division of labour according to which members of the colony are modified according to the duty they perform in the colony. Termites live in colonies and rely on a sophisticated hierarchy.

Social structure
They were the first animals which started living in colonies and developed a well organised social system about 300 million years ago, much earlier than honey bees and ants.

Queen
The queen is largest in physical size, attaining mass several times that of workers. Although termites do not exceed 3-4 mm in size, their queen is a 4 inch long giant that lies in the royal chamber motionless since its legs are too small to move its enormous body. Termite queen is an egg-laying machine that reproduces at the astonishing rate of one egg per second, 24 hours a day and for about 20 years of life. When hatched into larvae, the young termites can become workers or soldiers depending on the pheromones and temperatures the eggs are exposed to. Queen secretes inhibiting hormones that do not allow nymphs to develop into new queens.

Workers
Worker termites are very small. These creatures are less than 0.11 of an inch in size. These termites have no eyes, or extremely small eyes. The workers are the sole providers in the colony’s division of labour and it relies on them to care for all of the feeding, maintains order of the young and developing babies, and foraging.

Soldiers
These colony members protect the queen and her young. Soldiers have long dagger-like mandibles with which they defend their nest and workers chew the wood to feed to the queen and larvae and grow fungus gardens for lean periods. Nasutes are specialized soldiers which specialize in chemical warfare. They produce a jet of highly corrosive chemical from their bodies that can dissolve the skin of enemies and can also help in making galleries through the rocks. They are bulldozers of the colony.

Source: http://www.iaszoology.com/social-life-insects/

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