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arrow-up185arrow-down1external-linkScientists discovered the oldest termite mounds on Earth — and they're 34,000 years oldwww.livescience.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squareBarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·4 months agoIf we kill them, do all the other termites turn back into normal ants?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·4 months agoThe common ancestor of termites and ants is a lot more distant than you think. Termites evolved from cockroaches and ants evolved from wasps. https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=9358 On the other hand, the answer is that the other termites all turn into crabs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
minus-squareMonkderDritte@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-24 months agoAh, queen and drone being able to fly is a leftover from wasps? And yeah, the end of all arthropoda is always crabs.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-24 months agoI am guessing yes. And the formic acid stinger some ants have is a leftover too.
If we kill them, do all the other termites turn back into normal ants?
The common ancestor of termites and ants is a lot more distant than you think.
Termites evolved from cockroaches and ants evolved from wasps.
https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=9358
On the other hand, the answer is that the other termites all turn into crabs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Ah, queen and drone being able to fly is a leftover from wasps?
And yeah, the end of all arthropoda is always crabs.
I am guessing yes. And the formic acid stinger some ants have is a leftover too.
No, they just all die