[2] Activities of M. bellicosus that go on outside the nest, which mainly consist of exploration and food gathering, show a division of labor between the two worker castes.

[3] Two different feeding groups were established in M. bellicosus based on examining the gut contents of workers in foraging sites, the fungus comb and queen cell.

[4] The division of labor between minor and major workers also causes there to be a difference in the pheromone trails that each type of caste will leave.

Trails that are left by minor workers, which can contain information about the presence of food based on the existence of certain pheromones, will attract both types of castes.

[5] M. bellicosus individuals showed different types of intraspecific colony recognition behavior depending on caste.

The variation of this behavior could not be correlated to mound size, age or spatial difference between colonies, indicating that there was no type of dear enemy effect.

[6] M. bellicosus will construct mounds differently based on the surrounding habitat, as seen in observations made in Comoé National Park.

[1] Pressures from predation play a role in the foraging behavior of M. bellicosus, which will vary between the two types of environments.

It was observed that in the savanna, where even during the rainy season the availability of food is limited, the other termites exhibit complementary foraging in response to M. bellicosus, where they were more active in the absence of this dominant detritivore.