No One Home
by Gary Keesler
Title
No One Home
Artist
Gary Keesler
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art Photography
Description
Mound-Building Termites or just mound builders are a group of termite species that live in mounds, My "No One Home" image is a display of an empty Termite Mound.
This group of termites live in Africa, Australia and South America.
The mounds sometimes have a diameter of 30 meters.
Most of the mounds are found in well drained areas.
Termite mounds usually out live the colonies themselves.
If the inner tunnels of the nest are exposed it is usually dead, however, sometimes other colonies occupy a mound after the death of the original builders.
Workers, smallest in size, are the most numerous of the castes.
They are all completely blind, wingless, and sexually immature.
Their job is to feed and groom all of the dependent castes.
They also dig tunnels, locate food and water, maintain colony atmospheric homeostasis, and build and repair the nest.
The soldiers job is to defend the colony from any unwanted animals.
When the large soldiers attack they emit a drop of brown, corrosive salivary liquid which spreads between the open mandibles.
When they bite, the liquid spreads over the opponent.
The secretion is commonly stated to be toxic or else undergoes coagulation with the air, which renders it glue-like.
Finally, there are the reproductive s. They include the king and the queen.
The queen can sometimes grow up to six centimeters long while the lower classes are generally less than one centimeter.
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December 30th, 2015
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