Researchers Find 'Key Ingredient' That Regulates Termite Caste System

Thursday, July 8, 2010 - 14:56 in Biology & Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- A North Carolina State University entomologist has for the first time shown which specific chemicals are used by some termite queens to prevent other termites in the colony from becoming mommies like themselves.

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