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动物学研究 1986
''''SWARMING''''OF COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS SHIRAKI AND ITS APPLICATION IN JUDGING POSITION OF ANTHILLS
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Abstract:
'Swarming' is a physiological phenomenon of society of white ants, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, and 'Swarming Hole' is the reflection of this phenomenon on the surface of objects. There is a natural relationship between 'Swarming Hole' and anthills, and it provides a theoretical basis for termite-control-staff to take preclusive measures aganist white ants. The present paper exponded the law of 'Swarming'of Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, described the distributional properties of 'Swarming Hole' among various anthills, and showed the inner relationship between anthills and the distributional properties. To know these law and relationship was a precedent condition in judging the position of anthills.