Introduction
Termites, Isotera, are known to react to the exposure of the chemical substance found in ball point pens. Naturally, termites will follow any trail made up of pen ink. This specific observation was tested and carried out by Sim et al. They “investigated how termites select the direction of movement at an artificially-designed branching node, by making chemical trails on filter paper, drawing lines using a ballpoint pen which contained the chemical substance that induces the termite to follow trails” (Sim et al. 2012). Knowing how termites react when exposed to these specific chemicals on filter paper, the dependence of the color of filter paper was unknown. We set out to determine the unknown which was if there was any effect
Termites, Isotera, are known to react to the exposure of the chemical substance found in ball point pens. Naturally, termites will follow any trail made up of pen ink. This specific observation was tested and carried out by Sim et al. They “investigated how termites select the direction of movement at an artificially-designed branching node, by making chemical trails on filter paper, drawing lines using a ballpoint pen which contained the chemical substance that induces the termite to follow trails” (Sim et al. 2012). Knowing how termites react when exposed to these specific chemicals on filter paper, the dependence of the color of filter paper was unknown. We set out to determine the unknown which was if there was any effect