#termites also have kings that live with their queens instead of fuck n die

[dimetrodone]

Always assumed termites had the same haplodiploid arrangement as ants and only now I am discovering that they are much, much weirder

YEAH the weird about Termites is that they are entirely unrelated to ants, bees, and wasps (termites evolved from cockroaches). Unlike other famous eusocial insects , they have a 50/50 split in sexes and hatch as nymphs instead of larva which makes their life cycles a lot..different

I’ve been looking at the (varied) graphs for termite lifecycle and caste development and it’s bizzare