Just sharing a pair of pics of one of my two incipient colonies of Incisitermes schwarzi, a nice Kalotermitid found in Florida and parts of the Caribbean area and central America.
The colony as it stood around three months ago, shortly after i obtained them. Note the nanitic presoldier above the royal pair.
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The same colony, or better part of it, pictured today. With its growing the royal pair along many of their court bored inside the wood and transferred there obscuring themselves from wiew (note a nanitic soldier peeping from the hole in the top right), but several pseudergates (and often larvae and eggs aswell, and rarely even the royals) are always visible outside.
To end the post, here's a third pic not from me but Dr. Rudolof Scheffrahn (University of Florida) of some wild specimens from Panama, showing the two morphologies of soldiers present in more mature I. schwarzi colonies: larger with elongated heads and comparably shorter mandibles and smaller with more squared heads. Also note how their third antennal segment, though still enlarged compared with the others, is much less so than in I. minor, likely the species of the genus the most people in the US are familiar with.
