Lois E. Swoboda, antbetty@excite.com, West Virginia Department of Agriculture, Plant Industries Division, 1900 Kanawha Blvd., East, Charleston, WV and Dini M. Miller, dinim@vt.edu, Virginia Tech, Department of Entomology, 216 Price Hall, Blacksburg, VA.
The ability of thermal shadows (soil differing significantly in temperature from the surrounding substrate) to direct subterranean termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) aggregation was tested under laboratory conditions. Hot and cold thermal shadows were tested. Termites were more likely to aggregate in cold thermal shadows than in warm thermal shadows or the surrounding substrate.
Species 1: Isoptera Rhinotermitidae
Reticulitermes flavipes (Eastern Subterranean Termite)
Keywords: Aggregation, Thermal Shadows
