Charles Darwin University

Non-monogamy and colony inheritance are the leading causes of conflict among termites, but these social cockroaches prove you don’t always need a big brain to get to the bottom of even the curliest of problems peacefully, new research from Charles Darwin University (CDU) has found.

Study author Judith Korb, a CDU and University of Freiburg researcher, investigated a termite species found in Darwin and its mangroves to analyse which mechanisms these invertebrates have evolved to resolve conflict.