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Giant cathedral termite mounds in the Litchfield National Park, Australia. Sometimes called Spinifex Termites (Nasutitermes triodiae)
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Southern giraffe (Giraffa giraffa), aka two-horned giraffe,] is a species of giraffe native to Southern Africa. It is one of the four species of giraffe recognized by the International union for the Conservaton of Nature (IUCN).
Okavanga Delta, Botswana.
Conservation status: vulnerable
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Look at this cute little termite. It looks like it is made of wax and lit from within. This is the first time that I have been able to get a photo of one with wings.
Giant cathedral termite mounds in the Litchfield National Park, Australia. Sometimes called Spinifex Termites (Nasutitermes triodiae)
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Please do not use this photo on any websites or for personal use.
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Β©2016 Fantommst
Giant cathedral termite mounds in the Litchfield National Park, Australia. Sometimes called Spinifex Termites (Nasutitermes triodiae)
All rights reserved. Written permission required for usage.
Please do not use this photo on any websites or for personal use.
Thank you.
Β©2016 Fantommst
Masai Mara National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
The southern ground hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri; formerly known as Bucorvus cafer), is one of two species of ground hornbill and is the largest species of hornbill. The other species of the genus Bucorvus is the Abyssinian ground hornbill, B. abyssinicus.
Southern ground hornbills can be found from northern Namibia and Angola to northern South Africa and southern Zimbabwe to Burundi and Kenya. They require a savanna habitat with large trees for nesting and dense but short grass for foraging.
The southern ground hornbill is a vulnerable species, mainly confined to national reserves and national parks. They live in groups of 5 to 10 individuals including adults and juveniles. Often, neighbouring groups are engaged in aerial pursuits. They forage on the ground, where they feed on reptiles, frogs, snails, insects and mammals up to the size of hares. Southern ground hornbills very rarely drink:[9] their range is limited at its western end by the lack of trees in which to build nests.
Southern ground hornbill on termite mound near Mopani, Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Southern ground hornbill groups are very vocal: contact is made by calls in chorus which can usually be heard at distances of up to 3 kilometres (1.86 mi). The calls allow each group to maintain its territories, which must be as large as 100 square kilometres (40 sq mi) even in the best habitat. β Wikipedia
Malayan Sun Bear - "Being omnivores, sun bears have a broad diet including ants, bees, beetles, honey, termites and plant material such as seeds and several kinds of fruits"
We've had some hot weather lately and that always brings out the termites. This particular morning they were gathering in the millions (and then some) in the gently swirling eddies below the clifftops. Would they show up in a photo? Only one way to find out. This is only a minute part of the whole. The numbers are beyond imagining.
the Meridian termite or as the locals call them βMagneticβ Termite Mounds (Amitermes meridionalis) which produce unusual wedge-shaped mounds aligned in a roughly North-South direction. These mounds occur in large numbers on the black soil plains, which become waterlogged in the wet season.
Old build done for Hibernia. Meant to be a terraforming/mining vehicle utilised in rugged environments.
These termite mounds are only a few minutes from my Dundee Beach block in the Northern Territory of Australia. I captured this image using the focus stacking app on my Nikon D850, it consists of 17 images that I rendered using Helicon Focus 7 software.
The lights on this termite mound in Emas National Park, Brazil, are from tiny click beetle larvae (Pyrearinus termitilluminans), which glow from burrows on the outside. The larvae do not blink on and off like fireflies, but leave their lights on, hoping to attract flying insects (like winged termites & ants), which they then grab with their sharp mandibles. When conditions are right, some mounds can glow with the lights of dozens of these larvae, turning the structures into Seussian-looking Christmas trees. The adult beetles also bioluminesce - and are not necessarily safe from predation by the larvae.
Termites in rotten wood of a tree hole
Bicentennial Park, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 2017
Our recent holiday had to be in Queensland because we would probably have not been able to get back into the state without a two week, self paid isolation. So we did as told and racked up a bit over 5400 kilometres in our own state, not a place we have done that much long distance travelling in for more than eight years. We didn't see as many old homes, falling down around their little bit of earth as in recent years - Queensland just doesn't seem to have as many as the wonderful variety we have seen in southern states. They either burn down or get eaten by termites I think because of course most are timber rather than of bricks or sandstone etc. as commonly used in cooler climes.
We found this one in the little town of St. Lawrence, half way along the long stretch between Mackay and Rockhampton and off the beaten track a bit. One of those little villages where nothing moves except a creaking bit of corrugated iron.
This one is dedicated to Donna in the USA.
Rietvlei Nature Reserve
12h35
Fiscal Flycatchers are important insectivores; together with other bird species they help control ant, termite, moths, mealy bugs and other 'pest' species.
***Special admin award PASSION FOR BIRDS 25 August 2022
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Mechtober week 4!
Right on time... poor guy is a structural disaster and doesn't photograph well; so I piled on some bricks and called it a day. But it's done, I can stop looking at pictures of construction equipment when I lie in bed at night. Only 9 months till I botch next years mechtober!
One of Litchfield National Park's most impressive sights is the hundreds of termite mounds standing up to two metres high in a wide swathe of empty ground. Up to 100 years old, these structures are unique to the northern parts of Australia and Litchfield National Park, 120 kilometres south of Darwin.
Magnetism or magnets have nothing to do with it. This arrangement is natureβs answer to the problem of termite air conditioning. By aligning themselves with the journey of the sun, these termites ensure that the temperature stays even over the course of the ferociously hot day and subsequent cold night.
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