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Fig- 383- Termes lucifugus. Male (A), Worker (B), Soldier (c), magnified. 

 Fecundated female of Termes bellicosus, natural size, surrounded by workers (ODD D). 



But the pregnant female leaves all these dimensions far behind. 

 Her abdomen becomes two thousand times as big as the rest of her 



