Test your termite expertise

Editor’s Note: Questions for this month’s test were contributed by Doug Foster, Paul Hardy, Eric Scherzinger, Pete Schopen and Mark VanderWerp, BCE. Want to know how you did? The answers are listed at the bottom of the page.

Tech Test Tidbit

Standing guard Soldier termites make up 2 percent to 5 percent of a colony’s population. They accompany worker termites to food sources and defend the colony against ants and competitor termites.

SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EXTENSION

Answers to April Tech Test

1.True, 2. d, 3. True, 4. False, 5. True, 6. True, 7. c, 8. True, 9. True, 10. True