. Insects, their ways and means of living. Insects. Fig. 82. The usual king (A) and queen (B), or winged repro- ductive caste after having lost the wings (fig. 79), of Rtticuli- termes flavipes. (From Banks and Snyder) offspring of any form; but both short-winged and wing- less parents can produce soldiers and workers. It ap- pears, therefore, that each imperfect fertile insect lacks something in its constitution that is necessary for the pro- duction of a complete termite individual. The production of constitutionally different castes from the eggs of a single pair of parents would be a [141]
. Insects, their ways and means of living. Insects. Fig. 82. The usual king (A) and queen (B), or winged repro- ductive caste after having lost the wings (fig. 79), of Rtticuli- termes flavipes. (From Banks and Snyder) offspring of any form; but both short-winged and wing- less parents can produce soldiers and workers. It ap- pears, therefore, that each imperfect fertile insect lacks something in its constitution that is necessary for the pro- duction of a complete termite individual. The production of constitutionally different castes from the eggs of a single pair of parents would be a [141]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Snodgrass, R. E. (Robert E. ), 1875-1962. New York Smithsonian Institution series
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