In March 2016, Thomas Chouvenc, a research assistant at the University of Florida Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, noticed a major swarm of Asian subterranean termites (Coptotermes gestroi) in his neighborhood, so he busted out the video camera and shot the following: As we recently reported, invasive termites are spreading throughout South Florida........“I need them alive so I can start new colonies by pairing a male and a female,” Thomas wrote. “After one year, colonies are about 100 individuals, after two years they are about 2,000 individuals, and after three years, 15-20,000 termites in a single colony. We can therefore perform large experiments with actual full colonies, which is not so easy to do. I have been working on various aspect of colony growth dynamics, and I also need such colonies to compare their biology with my hybrid termites!”.....
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