Milk termite
The milk termite is a small Australian insect that lives in a huge family. Together they build a hard mound out of soil. From the mound, secret tunnels spread out under the ground in every direction.
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Fun facts
The mound has a thick, hard outer wall and a hard core of soil stuck together like cement.
In the very middle of the mound is a soft, papery nursery where the queen and the young termites live.
The workers travel through tunnels in the soil, so they can find food without ever coming out into the open.
Its soldiers have heads shaped like a pear.
Most asked questions about Milk termite
?Where does the milk termite live?
In Australia, in mounds it builds from soil.
?How big is a milk termite?
Very small. Its soldiers are only about 4 to 5 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Coptotermes lacteus
- Group
- Cockroaches and termites
- Family
- Heterotermitidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Blattodea > Heterotermitidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Coptotermes lacteus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Froggatt, W. W.. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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