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These termites were the size of a grain of sand but the nest was probably 70cm in diameter. Photographed May 9th in Costa Rica on tour with Neotropic Photo Tours, led by Juan Carlos Vindas.
The structure of the mounds can be very complicated. Inside the mound is an extensive system of tunnels and conduits that serves as a ventilation system for the underground nest. In order to get good ventilation, the termites will construct several shafts leading down to the cellar located beneath the nest. The mound is built above the subterranean nest. The nest itself is a spheroidal structure consisting of numerous gallery chambers. They come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Some, like Odontotermes termites build open chimneys or vent holes into their mounds, while others build completely enclosed mounds like Macrotermes.
Termite mounds are all over the Chillagoe area as well as the rest of the savannah parts of the continent. The total biomass and function of termites in Australia is equal to that of wildebeest in Africa. The Australian bustard there (the big bird) makes a nice size comparison- those birds are four or five feet tall on average.
One of my students had a farm in the Sawagi, so we used to go there on Fridays to smoke chicha. I thought this was just a pile of earth until he explained that it was actually a termite hill!
Probably twice my height. Karongwe near Kruger in South Africa and Okavango in Botswana both had these huge termite mounds, so I figured they must be widespread. But it turns out they're relatively restricted in southern Africa to just those areas.
Termites rule in the Trinidad rain forest, their trails and mounds are everywhere, I scratched off a bit of one of their trails and the soldiers came swarming out - ready to attack and protect - close up they are quite awesome with their large protective heads.
Termite mushroom, soy bean sprouts, red pepper foam
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Termite alates or swarmers emerge in the spring, usually after a warm, rainy day. Unlike worker and soldier termites that are cream colored, alates are black and have wings. However, wings may drop off and can be found in a pile on the floor. For more information on termites: www.nysipm.cornell.edu/whats_bugging_you/termites/default...
Did you know it is believed that close to 75% of the buildings here in Southern California are host to at least one minor colony of termites– and the majority of these are dry wood termites. If you are having a problem with termites, give the professionals at Lloyd Pest Control a call today! www.lloydpest.com/termites/
Termites? Not sure yet.
Seen in Venezuela.
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While doing yard work, several termite swarmers were flying around and this one (of many) landed on my shirt.
A termite colony did some extreme damage here! If you see termite swarms late this summer they are probably a mature colony of drywood termites. Lloyd Pest serves the Encinitas, Ramona, and the Coronado/Rancho Santa Fe/Del Mar CA areas. www.lloydpest.com/termites/
The biological significance of Magnetic Termite mounds
The “Magnetic Termite” Amitermes meridionalis occurs only in a small part of the Northern Territory of Australia and builds famous wedge-shaped mounds with an elongated axis that is orientated in a striking north-south direction. This shape is unique among all other termite mounds which are always more or less spherical and many hypotheses have been advanced to explain the remarkable shape and orientation. Most of these investigations focus on the orientation, but the biological significance of the shape is rarely explored. The currently accepted hypothesis considers shape and orientation as adaptation to maintain a thermo stable eastern face. In contrast to this we consider habitat conditions, such as heavy rainfalls and regularly flooding in the wet season, as most important for the evolution of this shape.
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Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Subclass:Pterygota
Infraclass:Neoptera
Superorder:Dictyoptera
Order:Isoptera
Family: Termitidae
Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
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The biological significance of Magnetic Termite mounds
The “Magnetic Termite” Amitermes meridionalis occurs only in a small part of the Northern Territory of Australia and builds famous wedge-shaped mounds with an elongated axis that is orientated in a striking north-south direction. This shape is unique among all other termite mounds which are always more or less spherical and many hypotheses have been advanced to explain the remarkable shape and orientation. Most of these investigations focus on the orientation, but the biological significance of the shape is rarely explored. The currently accepted hypothesis considers shape and orientation as adaptation to maintain a thermo stable eastern face. In contrast to this we consider habitat conditions, such as heavy rainfalls and regularly flooding in the wet season, as most important for the evolution of this shape.
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Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Subclass:Pterygota
Infraclass:Neoptera
Superorder:Dictyoptera
Order:Isoptera
Family: Termitidae
Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
THIS is why we're nuking the house next week. They weren't there when I started this morning, but by cleanup time, there was a big swarm of termite nymphs. What I did next would be euphemistically called "reducing the odds".
I was cringing as a wasp roughly the size of a hummingbird flew into my filed of view.
These termite mounds were most impressive. From the park sign:
Cathedral Termite Mound
This mound is home to a colony of grass eating termites, Nasutitermes triodiae. It's about 5 meters high and could be over 50 years old.
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Subclass:Pterygota
Infraclass:Neoptera
Superorder:Dictyoptera
Order:Isoptera
Family: Termitidae
Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
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Termite Control
This is silent enemy enters building/structures from below the ground level. Perforating the foundation, It finds its way to upper levels by moving through wall cavities, joints and floors. It moves through enter spaces of brick and stone work in composite and masonry foundations, penetrate concrete slab-in –grade constructions and RCC columns and beams. The steel used in RCC rusts during the curing period and provides excellent tunnel space for termites, facilitating their entry to upper floors. Termites are reported to even crack to beams to get to the wooden part of the roof. To detect termite activity, look for swarms galleries in wood , mud tubes, soil passages and areas close to light sources in buildings. Especially during spring and autumn.
Termite damage to your valuable possessions like costly wooden-work and furniture, clothes, books, important documents, priceless painting- for that matter any thing that has a cellulose base. They also ruin lawns and garden. Termite treatment methods are :-
(a)Pre-Construction Termite Treatment
(b)Post-Construction TermiteTreatment
(c) Soil Treatment.
Pre-Construction Anti - termite treatment:-
Chemical emulsion apply at follwing stages:-
Stage A :- Treat the bottom surface and sides of the excavation made for column pits. Wall trenches per square feet area.
Stage B :- Treat the refill earth on both sides of all build-up walls (approximate width 30cm ) and depth 45cm of vertical surface of substructure.
Stage C :- Treat the entire leveled surface (before laying the floor) .in case of RCC framed struture with columns and plinth beams and RCC basement, the treatment can starts at a depth of 50cm below ground level.
Stage D :-The treatment along the external & internal walls of entire building below concrete and masonry apron & soil under existing floor using chemical emulsion at per square feet including drilling & plugging hole as per standard norms. Our squad will drill the hole, both side or existing wall. We will drill the holes every one square feet on the inside building & out side plinth area. We will close all the holes at floor area. All plinth area spray by our chemical emulsion before laying floor.
Stage E:- Treatment inside the building by chemical emulsion (in oil/kerosene base solution) on all wodden work all the wooden work in twice time as per standard norms& all walls spray by chemical emulsions. We close the holes by white cement.
Post Construction Anti-termite treatment:- Chemical emulsion apply at follwing stages:-
)External treatment
MASONARY FOUNDATIONS
Dig shovel width trenches along the external wall of the building exposing the foundation wall surfaces 50cm deep holes, all along this trench and pour chemical emulsion.
Treat the back fill earth with chemical emulsion to the trench directing the spry towards the wall surface. If there is a concrete or masonry apron around the building, drill 12mm holes as close as possible to the plinth wall and pump chemical emulsion to soak the soil linear meter..
B) Internal treatment
TREATMENT OF SOIL UNDER FLOORS
Soil below and opening the floor is to be charged with the chemical so as to deny access to termite.
Drill 12mm holes at the junction of floor and wall, along cracks on the floor and along constructional joints to reach the soil below and seal the hole properly.
WOOD WORK TREATMENT
The existing wooden fixtures in the building, which are in contact with the floor or the walls and which are infested by the termites will be treated by drilling 6 mm at an angle of 45 degrees at the junction of wood work and masonry and squirting the chemical emulsion in the holes till refusal or to a maximum of half liter per hole.
Termites are formidable architects, building mounds that can reach 17 feet (5 meters) and higher. The 33 pounds (15 kilograms) or so of termites in a typical mound will, in an average year, move a fourth of a metric ton (about 550 pounds) of soil and several tons of water.
The termites also "farm" a symbiotic fungus that occupies eight times more of the nest than the insects do. And some termites eat as much grass each year as an 880-pound (400-kilogram) cow.Like ants, bees, and other social insects, termites live in societies where the collective power of the colony far outstrips that of the individual. Being part of a super-organism gives the tiny termite superpowers. But a termite mound is like a construction site without a foreman—no one termite is in charge of the project. Is there a "collective plan" encoded in the collective mind of the colony? - National Geographic
Termite nest - sadly too far away to photograph any inhabitants.
El Dorado, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Farmers harvest termites that will be used to feed poultry, Bitiago village near Boromo, Burkina Faso.
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The old 70's ballard does apply somewhat as this is the new replacement power line pole that is outside of my house. The original pole was so rickety that I think that it was only that it's resident termite population were holding hands that kept it upright! ☺
The biological significance of Magnetic Termite mounds
The “Magnetic Termite” Amitermes meridionalis occurs only in a small part of the Northern Territory of Australia and builds famous wedge-shaped mounds with an elongated axis that is orientated in a striking north-south direction. This shape is unique among all other termite mounds which are always more or less spherical and many hypotheses have been advanced to explain the remarkable shape and orientation. Most of these investigations focus on the orientation, but the biological significance of the shape is rarely explored. The currently accepted hypothesis considers shape and orientation as adaptation to maintain a thermo stable eastern face. In contrast to this we consider habitat conditions, such as heavy rainfalls and regularly flooding in the wet season, as most important for the evolution of this shape.
iussi.confex.com/iussi/2006/techprogram/P1435.HTM
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Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Subclass:Pterygota
Infraclass:Neoptera
Superorder:Dictyoptera
Order:Isoptera
Family: Termitidae
Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
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