Pest control removal of Termite Queen Extermination in Los Angeles, CA
IDENTIFICATION A queen will gradually grow to become much larger than when she was swarming with the other young females and males. To support a massive production of eggs, the queen must attain an abnormal abdominal size. While the workers and soldiers are tiny little things, the queen may be as big as a person’s thumb. The head, thorax, and legs of the queen may be no more than twice the size of a mature worker or soldier, but the abdomen is greatly enlarged to accommodate the production of the eggs. Some days these eggs will issue forth at a rate of one every few seconds.
BIOLOGY AND HABITS As a distinguishing feature of termite colonies, the queen lays the eggs. She is the supreme mother. The colony started when the first queen and her king chose a place to shed their wings and set up housekeeping. Before that they were flying around in a big party called a swarm. When the swarm breaks up, a queen and king pair off and settle near a ready supply of the necessities of life, plenty of wood and sufficient water and some kind of shelter.
It appears that in many species of termites, numerous eggs have the potential of becoming queens. There may be hormones at the center of the nest that keep the ordinary workers from fully developing into egg-producing queens. However, if and when an old queen dies, there is often one or more fledgling queens waiting to take over the primary responsibilities of motherhood. Such in-colony queen development may skip the growing of wings and the attendant swarming with its nuptial flight and new colony establishment.
There may even be more than one producing queen in a large colony. These other queens are called secondary reproductives. Sometimes each queen is compartmentalized from the others. These procedures and practices will vary from one species of termite to another.
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