Termite Biology and Social Behaviour

Pervez, Ahmad

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-72110-1_6

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“…Hence, the emergence of soldiers raises an evolutionary puzzle: why or how soldiers have evolved? Three hypotheses account for the origin of termite soldiers summarized by Pervez (2018): (1) a genetic compensation for sacrificing own life for the survival of other colony members, (2) a consequence of competition for the natal breeding position, and (3) an intrinsic benefit of gaining fitness even with the loss of reproductive potential. Besides, another evolutionary puzzle is the fixed soldier proportion existing in termite species, clarified by two regulations: (1) endocrinal regulation through caste differentiation development mediated by juvenile hormone and (2) social regulation through a template-reproduction model that the production of perspective soldiers templatizes the proportion of present generation (Pervez, 2018).…”

Section: Life Cycle and Caste Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Pervez (2018), the life cycle of termites begins with the dispersal of alates (winged adults) from their colony of origin. The mating alates reaching the ground shed their wings and start searching for a place to initiate a colony.…”

Section: Bioecology Of Selected Edible Termitementioning

confidence: 99%

“…True workers are the individual with early and irreversible deviation from the egg‐to‐reproductive development line, as opposed to the pseudergates, which are developing relatively late and conserve the capacity to develop into reproductive, and establish a new colony (Chouvenc et al., 2021). Alates are primarily reproductive, whereas soldiers are sterile (Pervez, 2018).…”

Section: Bioecology Of Selected Edible Termitementioning

confidence: 99%

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Termites as human foods—A comprehensive review

Siddiqui

Fernando

Saraswati

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Comp Rev Food Sci Food Safe

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Global food production is anticipated to rise along with the growth of the global population. As a result, creative solutions must be devised to ensure that everyone has access to nutritious, affordable, and safe food. Consequently, including insects in diets has the potential to improve global food and nutrition security. This paper aims to share recent findings by covering edible termites as the main aspect, from their consumption record until consumer acceptance. A total of 53 termite species are reported as edible ones and distributed in 6 biogeographic realms. Generally, termites have a nutrient composition that is suitable for human consumption, and cooked termites are a better dietary choice than their raw counterparts. Besides, increasing customer interest in eating termite‐based food can be achieved by making it more palatable and tastier through various cooking processes, that is, boiling, frying, grilling, roasting, smoking, and sun‐drying. Moreover, edible termites can also be used as a new source of medication by exhibiting antimicrobial activity. Regarding their advantages, it is strongly encouraged to implement a seminatural rearing system to sustain the supply of edible termites. Overall, this paper makes it evident that termites are an important natural resource for food or medicine. Hence, the long‐term objective is to stimulate scientific inquiry into the potential of edible insects as an answer to the problem of global food security.

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Section: Life Cycle and Caste Systemsmentioning

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“…The way termites find food using pheromones that influence their behavior can be understood through Pervez's study [21], as described in Figure 8. When digging underground tunnels, termites (as Agent 1) attempt to find food (named as the action) by laying down pheromone trails as the traces which they secrete from glands in their stomachs.…”

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Stigmergy Mechanism as a Form of Architectural Space Programming

Nabawi¹,

Paramita²,

Yatmo³

2022

cea

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This paper explores the understanding of architectural spaces driven by the knowledge that animals communicate by modifying the environment, in which they live. The way that animals communicate by modifying the environment forms an interaction, which is referred to as stigmergy, a mediated form of animal interaction. The paper elaborates on the process of stigmergy, in which animal colonies communicate with their living environment and leave different kinds of spatial traces. The paper argues that the stigmergy process can be potentially used as the basis of architectural programming. This writing explores multiple scenarios of the process of stigmergy in several insect colonies, highlighting the mechanism of stigmergy that is driven by three main components of stigmergy, namely Agent, Medium, and Traces. The writing focuses on how in stigmergy the agent interacts within a particular medium and creates traces in spaces. Findings on such mechanism of interaction are utilized to inform architectural programming that is based on the interaction between humans, animals, and the environment as integrated ecological systems. The development of the programming using the stigmergy method appropriates the social mechanisms of insects, in composing the spatial development of architecture, producing architectural systems for soil fertilization and revitalization of the environment.

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“…They also play a vital role in the ecosystem by recycling waste material such as dead wood, feces and plants [1]. Termites largely feed on cellulose and lignocellulose, and they are known to process 50-100% of dead plant and decaying biomass in the tropical areas [2]. Base food of termites are cellulose, so that termites like to eat away our furniture which made from wood, our documents.…”

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The Effectiveness Cigarette Butts as Liquid Anti-Termite

Syifa¹,

Sulhadi²,

Darsono³

2020

Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Science, Education and Technology, ISET 2019, 29th June 2

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The main food of termites is cellulose. Wooden home furniture is often eaten by termites. Even termites can damage building construction. We can find cigarette butts around us that it becomes a waste that pollutes the environment. Nicotine alkaloid substances can paralyze the nerves and it's really effective to control insects including termites. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of tobacco content liquid antitermite to control termites. The method is used as a wood-decoy technique that is smearing and soaking with liquid anti-termites of each tobacco mass containing 1 gr, 2 gr, 3 gr, 4 gr, 5 gr, and 6 gr. Observations are conducted once in every 3 hours for 24 hours. The results of this study show that the most effective liquid anti-termite to control termites is liquid anti-termite with a mass content of 6 grams of tobacco, the percentage of mortality at 12 hours of observation reaches 100% and the mass of wood does not decrease.

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Termite Biology and Social Behaviour

Cited by 7 publications

References 93 publications

Termites as human foods—A comprehensive review

Termites as human foods—A comprehensive review

Stigmergy Mechanism as a Form of Architectural Space Programming

The Effectiveness Cigarette Butts as Liquid Anti-Termite

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