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Just some of the tens of thousands of termite mounds alongside of the Victoria Highway in northwest Australia.
Depending on the terrain, many shades of different colours, and many different shapes and sizes are found.
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Flying termites, ngumbi in Chichewa & inshwa in Shona, which are the mating caste that swarm at this time of the year.
The white spots that look like snowflakes are winged termites flying up and dispersing. Windy Hill Open Space Preserve.
Took a lot of SweetFX modding to give it the right atmosphere. Also the windows were bloomy as anything and the only way to get them looking like this was to pan the camera around to the side, as effects are lessened while in motion.
So the game plan: set up a soul splitter wall behind me and use controller to look left and right but not so much that the character busts into view by mistake. While in motion press start and quickly the screenshot button to grab the shot during transition. This took more tries than I'm willing to admit and I'm generally good with the transition timing!
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Menu transition to hide HUD, wall-hugging to hide character
These are the Magnetic Termite Mounds run perfectly North - South on a very thin strip. They stand up to two metres tall. Taken in Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory Australia.
The Okavango Delta is Africa’s last-remaining wetland wilderness. From the air this a vast patchwork mosaic of open floodplains, simmering lagoons, never-ending reed beds, waving impenetrable papyrus, meandering channels, and thousands upon thousands of green, palmed islands and tree-lines seem to go on forever. An emerald gem in the middle of the Kalahari Desert. Visible from space this wilderness is a remote sanctuary for the region’s wildlife and natural heritage. Okavango River from the source in the Angolan highlands all the way to an untouched wilderness in the center of the Okavango Delta, one of Africa’s last-remaining true wilderness areas. (Source: National Geographic, comments by Steve Boyes)
We were blessed by Natural Habitat Adventures (www.nathab.com) to have a helicopter ride over a portion of the Delta. The doors were taken off and we were able to lean out and enjoy the view!
Termite Farms lies along the quite country road I mentioned in the previous photo. You will notice a few beautiful horses the have on the farm.
A small insurgent team have been sent into captured territory to find and disable a missile launch system. This type of opperation is not uncommon and are often successful, however failure usualy results in serious consequences.
Taken at Kiboko, Kenya, not sure if it can eat you, since it is less than 1 cm. But it defenetely can eat your house if it is made of wood... It collaborates with it's milions of sisters...
In the mild climate of coastal California, termites live in good health the year around. Without winter weather to kill them off, they feast on all the wooden buildings. The most effective ways of dealing with these freeloaders is to remove or double-bag all human foodstuffs, erect a tent -- a sort of cocoon -- over the whole house, pump in Vikane gas, and leave it a couple of days. No residue or smell afterwards, but hoo boy what a mess to put it all back.
Taken from the string of a Flow Form 16 kite in 8 - 10 mph westerly wind by a Sony NEX-5 triggered by a gentLED-AUTO infrared timer.
Travelling through north Queensland, visitors are gobsmacked by the number of termite mounds of all different shapes and colours.
The termite mounts and anthills on Cape York are amazing - huge, old structures which testify to the incredible power of working together!
This tree looked as though it had been totally ravaged by termites.
Taken for my first submission to Bokeh Wednesday
Flying termites, ngumbi in Chichewa & inshwa in Shona, which are the mating caste that swarm at this time of the year.
A unique perspective on a 3 million year old termite frozen in copal amber! I took this photo with a scanning microscope objective and a combination of extension tubes
A colony of Nasute termites I found under some bark. You see eggs, workers, soldiers and nymphs of various stages here.
This well rotted log had these stalactite-like structures hanging down from it -- some approaching a foot in length. It appeared that at least some were hollow with tunnels running down their center. They also seemed composed of small round particles that reminded me more of termite droppings than sawdust from woodborers. Here and there in the stalactites were tiny perfectly round holes. I looked but could not find any critters inside of the hanging structures. If anyone has an idea of the cause I would be interested. Patapsco Valley State Park, Maryland.
Whenever it rains, millions of these fly into our bathroom and die all over the place.
They would be quite beautiful if they weren't so annoying (and disgusting, particularly when they die in your cup)...
Recently released their alates, right in my room. Luckily my light was off so I could quickly rig a light outside to lure them out.
So what's the best way to get rid of them without killing myself in the process? I'm very reluctant to use arsenic based termiticides.
My first shot of members of the Isoptera order. These ones have a big nest the size of a soccer ball further up the tree, about 2.5 m off the ground. They connect their nest down to the ground by pathways along the tree trunk which they cover with some really hard substance. Looks like mud with small rocks in it. Got this shot after prying some of the cover from one of these paths.
My best guess so far that they're workers of the Microcerotermes sp. Family Termitidae
Will keep my eyes peeled if I can find any other cast members.
Purnululu National Park UNESCO World Heritage Site
Bungle Bungle Ranges
Kimberley Western Australia
Termites build their nests high up on the side of the cone Karsts to escape flash floods
Ryan spotted what we could only presume to be a termite mound. Mind you, with the general Fallout-ish feel of the place we wouldn't have been terribly surprised if a giant worker ant had crawled out.
Photographing stars you usually need a compass - but not in the Litchfield National Park in the Northern Territory in Australia. Some termites here somehow managed to use the magnetic field of our earth to build this unique kind of mounds, which are alligned from north to south. They look like flat tombstones, but their secret is that the sun warms up the eastern side first after cold nights, while the midday sun only reaches a small part of it directly - so it never gets too hot inside.