Xenoblatta Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Hello there guys, I was just wondering, ¿Is there anyone here breeding any from the infraorder Isoptera? Related pic: Some individuals that I've just found in my house :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hisserdude Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 No, but I have been tempted to keep some of the dampwood termites (Zootermopsis sp.) in the past, my mom does not want me keeping any though. Nice pictures, are you culturing those? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenoblatta Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 Well, I'll try to make a culture from these... There was a nuptial flight on these days and hopefully I'll get a royal couple. I found also some workers and maybe secondary breeders (perhaps...?) eating old clothes, so I guess this is not a picky species :-) I suppose that could be a very good food for tiny insectivores!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matttoadman Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 When you find the winged reproductives, the others you see are the soldiers kicking them out and the few workers are there to patch up any damage to the swarm tube. If you watch the alates(swarmers)after they drop their wings, there will be a female with a male in hot pursuit behind her. Or at least this is info for the eastern subterranean termite Reticulitermes flavipens. They will not survive long outside of a moist substrate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh M. Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 You've never seen neonate chameleons grow rapidly until you feed them termites! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matttoadman Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Several frog species that eat termites as well. My Buenos Aires tetras like them too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonsaladsandwich Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I have a colony of eastern subterranean termites in a glass container covered with dark paper. They don't do much and avoid the sides of the glass, unfortunately- usually I only see them when they come above ground when there's a heavy rain outside. There's lots of secondary reproductives but they don't seem to have produced any nymphs so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matttoadman Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Is the jar outside? I'm cornfused lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonsaladsandwich Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 No, it's inside. They must sense the barometric pressure or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matttoadman Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 How is your colony progressing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonsaladsandwich Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 I had to leave for 2 weeks a while back and the substrate dried out and all the termites died... it was doing quite well up until that point though. Eating lots of cardboard, saw a lot of new nymphs etc. if you want a colony vigorous enough to feed off you should start with as many termites as you can capture. I recommend setting a bunch of termite traps to collect termites for the colony and to feed your frogs for as long as possible before it gets too cold to collect them outside. Like, I'm talking a giant bin filled with a ton of substrate and cardboard and thousands of termites. Otherwise you might not have enough to last through the winter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubia4Life Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 I used to keep a colony of subterranean termites, they didn't really do much to be honest. They eventually died off after me forgetting about them in the garage. I kept them could I could never keep any ants lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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