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My daughters and I spent a morning in Litchfield National Park, about 1.5 hours drive south of Darwin. It was too hot to spend the whole day there!
A termite mound lit with a torch with two of the pointer stars from the Southern Cross visible to the left of the tree.
Etta is happy to scramble to the top of the old termite mound ... for a small treat (Ziwi Peak- Natural New Zealand Pet Nutrition Treats).
Kahn will keep his feet firmly on the ground :)
Termites are very vulnerable to the elements. Only the winged adults develop compund eyes and thick skins to enable them to move easily outside the nest. Kyogle, NSW.
I found a few spot where the termites ate across the bottom plate and up the tongue and grove planks on the wall. I was able to poke this hole open with my fingers.
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Es gibt Orte die haben einfach was mystisches. Egal wann man diese besucht, es herrscht eine spezielle Stimmung. So ein Ort sind die Termite Mounds im Litchfield National Park - zumindest für mich.
Als wir im September 2013 wieder in dieser Gegend waren entschlossen wir uns diesen 350km Abstecher zu den Termite Mounds zu machen - obwohl es eigentlich nicht eingeplant war. Doch wollte ich die Gelegenheit nutzen wenn wir schon in dieser Gegend sind, diesen Ort erneut zu besuchen und zu fotografieren. Wer Interesse hat mehr darüber zu efahren kann meinen neusten Blog Artikel auf nature-moments.com's Blog nachlesen.Der Link zum Blog findet ihr bei den Kommentaren!!!!!!!!!!!
There are a few places on earth that have something mystical. No matter what time you visit them there's just that special mood, something you can describe with words. One of those places are the Termite Mounds at Litchfield National Park, at least for me. When we traveled through the area in september 2013 we decided to make this 350km trip to Litchfield though we haven't planned to visit this places on this trip. But I thought I might as well take the opportunity while we are travelling through, to visit an photograph the Termite Mounds again. A wonderful and magic place!
Termites are a group of eusocial insects that, until recently, were classified at the taxonomic rank of order Isoptera (see taxonomy below), but are now accepted as the infraorder Isoptera, of the cockroach order Blattodea. While termites are commonly known, especially in Australia, as "white ants", they are for practical purposes unrelated to the ants (although they are prey to some ants, including the acrobat ant)......................
Mounds (also known as "termitaria") occur when an aboveground nest grows beyond its initially concealing surface. They are commonly called “ant hills” in Africa and Australia, despite the technical incorrectness of that name.
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In one of the most ancient instances of monoculture, Macrotermes termites cultivate gardens of Termitomyces fungus as a form of external digestion, enabling the break down plant lignin for their consumption. Here, soldiers and nymphs of M. gilvus attend their fungus comb, found deep within their subterranean nest. Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
A large termites nest in the Northern Territory Australia. They ranged from red, to the colour shown and grey.
This termite mound, at Fitzroy Falls in the Morton National Park, New South Wales, hosts an estimated half a million milk termites (Coptotermes lacteus) – underground creatures that live mainly on dead wood, thus helping natural recycling... unless, of course, it's your house they're eating. The mound, which is constructed from soil pellets, termite saliva and body waste, protects the termites from extreme weather and most predators (though not echidnas and goannas).
One of the key roles of the mound is temperature control – the termites can open and close vents to create a stable temperature, and to control humidity, which rarely varies by more than 1 per cent.
Incidentally, all praise to the National Parks and Wildlife Service of New South Wales, which provides excellent, well-marked walking facilities and information boards around the Fitzroy Falls. Clearly defined and maintained, they enable visitors to meander at leisure and discover nature at its best.