An egg mass with adult terminins of the Inviasi Coptotermemes stroi species
T Chouvenc, UF / IFAS
Florida’s most recent terminite is for one’s price, but no one celebrates someone. Two species in the world attacking, insects chewing on the tree, creating hybrid colonies that produce hard terms performed tight terms made buildings and forests together.
The findings “interesting and alarming” say Edoure Duquesne In the Free University of Brussel in Belsels, who did not participate in research. “Live hybrids in these two species are likely to lead to a super-inviensive Wersite that may have a large suitable step in the world, and that can be a significant injury.”
Up to 2010, termite pests are responsible for $ 40 billion of damage to the whole world each year, with about 80 percent of that cost from the termites of Silterranean as Copotrames. The Formosan Subterranean Termite (Coptotermes Formosanus) The most warm warmth of the Northern Hemisphere are invaded. Related tinued Asian subterranean (Copotrames estrico) spread from south-east asia all over the world. The two species overlap Southern Florida since the late 1990s, as Thomas Chouvenc at the University of Florida.
In 2015, the Chouvenc and his colleagues show that both species were successful produce hybrid child in the lab. In 2021, Chouvenc found alates – wings termites who left a spouse’s nest and begin with new appearance between formosan and small species in Asia. These are found in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and genetic analyzes later confirmed as hybrids. The team also discovers a hybrid nest in a local park next to a marina.
In 2024, The wild hybrid is confirmed of Taiwan researchers, which two species overlap in a century. Themites are currently snatching in southern Florida.
“Either two species accompanied by time, it was an hour before they had a chance of hybridise and build hybrid populations,” says Chouvenc.
Researchers also know that the first hybrid hybrid females can be similar and forms the colonies of men in parental classes. Chouvenc is concerned that if genes can flow between the species, the result can be a similarly harmful terminite population that can improve in the larger environmental conditions such as temperature. The Themites’s location near the most busy ports increases the possibility that such hybrids can flowed into boats and spread globally.
“(People) allow these questions to spread because we never care,” says Chouvenc. “Now we’re pricing pay classes for it.”
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