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RE: Nesting Question...

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Posted by: crocdoc2 at Fri Feb 3 20:33:27 2012  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by crocdoc2 ]  
   

"though I m sure that the security is a swell perk, especially with the termites repairing the entry hole"

Oh definitely. I didn't say it wasn't a factor, just that it was secondary to the heat/humidity. There are two species of monitor in Australia that are habitual termite mound nesters and it's no coincidence that those two species have the southernmost ranges of all Australian monitors. That and the fact that monitors ignore dead mounds suggest that temperature and humidity are key.



A number of years ago someone did a study on nesting by lace monitors in termite mounds and he found that in mounds in which the colonies died, the lace monitor eggs within also died, presumably mid-winter.



   

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