Her eyes saw, her ears heard, her nose smelt every animal in the forest form the elk and bear to the termite and the shrew. |
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The African termite lives in tall mounds so strong that humans use dynamite to remove them when they are in the way. |
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Steel does not rot, warp, crack, split or change with the weather and it is termite and vermin proof. |
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On my way there I turned over a board and found a termite colony with a few big soldiers in with the rank and file. |
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Certain of the test compounds have both prevented wood decay and killed native termite colonies. |
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Although a native termite colony might occasionally infest a tree, it's almost invariably a dead one, Messenger says. |
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The termite mound, or termitary, consists of hard, thick walls that seal in moisture and keep heat out. |
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All termite species build nests, also known as termitaries or termitaria, but the specifics of these nests can vary. |
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And when we landed, a tamandua was busy breaking into a termite mound beside the runway. |
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Like a little aardvark discovering a termite mound, her tiny nose twitched ecstatically. |
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It is a powerful little digger with long, strong claws, which it uses to rip apart rock-hard termite mounds. |
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However she found only a few trees infested with living colonies of the termite. |
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The aardwolf is a undoubted termite specialist, lapping up exposed workers assembled along foraging trails. |
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Without termite protection, a house in the southeast is likely to get hit sometime. |
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The importance of microbial spatial relationships for the functioning of the termite gut microbiota have recently been discussed in detail. |
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Termites are rare as fossils and termite nests in wood are almost unknown as fossils. |
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Males in ant colonies die immediately after mating, unlike termite male alates, which become kings and live with the queen. |
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An aardvark's tear membrane protects its eyes against termite bites. |
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No people, no houses, no cars, just a wilderness of river-gum trees lining ancient waterless riverbeds, acacias, spinifex grasses and spooky giant termite mounds. |
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Check out the cleverly-constructed termite mounds, swim in pandanus-lined pools and take scenic walks on a day trip. |
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Many a householder has no doubt issued a lavatorial expletive on discovering termite damage to his house. |
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Concretion with fossil wood 20 cm across with termite borings packed with termite fecal pellets. |
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Intricate reticulated patterns appear in the passageways of the fungus gardens of African termite colonies, and in the crisscrossing trails of foraging army ants. |
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To prevent termite and weevil damage in crops like yam tubers, farmers mix kitchen ash into the soil before planting. |
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Which is where the termite connection comes in. Termites, a specialised group of social cockroaches, are one of entomology's puzzles. |
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Geochemical surveys of termite mounds at Sikia 2 and Libiri South have also been carried out and some anomalies have already been identified. |
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Favourite 'homes' are termite mounds but can also be found in arid or moist savannah. |
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Then our termite gets into a truck and drives too fast over an obstacle, bending the suspension. |
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Our scientific teams have provided help to protect the new timber used to build the pavilions from termite damage. |
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Just a few kilometers after the park's entrance you'll see the surreal, tombstone-like field of giant termite mounds. |
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Children collect termite, snails, and the caterpillars of several insects. |
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However, the sellers ended up giving back a huge chunk of their profits when a termite inspection revealed that there was extensive dry rot in the internal framing. |
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Aardvarks can travel as far as 16 km a night, visiting termite mounds. |
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Anteaters, pangolins, and some armadillos use hook-and-pull digging with the enlarged claw of a single, enlarged manual digit to open termite or ant nests made of hard dirt. |
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And neither is the termite mound a heap, a haphazard pile of dirt. |
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The borate ingredient in the fire-protection solution makes the wood a less than ideal food source, so it is resistant to termite and fungal damage as well. |
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Termites have a strict caste system, which consists of worker termites, soldiers, winged reproductive termites, a queen termite, and a king termite. |
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On the coast tree ferns and pandanus palms. Inland termite menhirs seventeen feet high. |
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In lace monitors, the young hatch close to 300 days and the female returns to help them escape the termite mound were the eggs were laid. |
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Agriculture usually refers to human activities, although it is also observed in certain species of ant, termite and ambrosia beetle. |
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To avoid decay and termite infestation, untreated wood is separated from the ground and other sources of moisture. |
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The MNLA is as riven internally as the termite mounds that dot the region, and its infiltration by AQIM is well-established, however much a majority of Tuareg rebels may loathe the jihadist cause. |
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In a damage test using the most pestiferous termite, the Coptotermes termite, Einwood® successfully avoided all damage. This result was due to the molecular compatibility of Einwood®, a mix of wood fibres and plastic flakes. |
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Therefore, coprophagy may provide these termite species with dietary nitrogen. |
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This area includes cerrado and gallery forests where arboreal termite nests are abundant. |
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Here, we report and comment on arboreal termite nest geophagy by the Yellow-chevroned Parakeet during the excavation of nest cavities. |
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Unrooting vegetables called tubers looked like a good match, and a recent paper proposed termite digging. |
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Dissimilatory arsenate reductase activity and arsenate-respiring bacteria in bovine rumen fluid, hamster feces, and the termite hindgut. |
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Western red cedar's natural resistance to termite attack has been found to vary with termite species, source of wood materials and feeding conditions. |
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For example we are conducting tests of herbicides and baits containing growth regulator that hopefully will lead us to the establishment of methods to control both growth of trees and termite infestations. |
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These cavities have protective empty spaces surrounding the habitacle, which is the actual nest containing the termite colony. |
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Bat habitats include caves, trees, mines, abandoned weaverbird nests, abandoned termite mounds, or attics and roofs of homes. |
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Termites can't eat through the Termimesh termite control barrier. |
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This wood attracts termite and larval insects, for this reason it is characterised as having low or medium duration capacity against putrid fungi. |
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The leachability of these boron compounds and the termite and decay resistance of wood treated with these compounds were evaluated. |
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In contrast, certain species have invaded local environments like a plague since the 1980s notably the yellow jacket wasp and the Eastern subterranean termite. |
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To bluff about your knowledge or skill is to live in fear of being found out, and that is a termite nibbling away at the foundation of your hope of working efficiently. |
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Common culprits include the Eastern subterranean termite and the black carpenter ant. |
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The advantage of this dual mating system is that it avoids inbreeding, where the king, which lives longer than the queen, would effectively mate with his own daughter, as happens with other termite species. |
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There is already evidence that mothers and children are foraging for leaves and breaking into termite mounds in search of the few grains stored there. |
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It is easy to distinguish between them: the termite has straight antennae and a thick waist, and the carpenter ant has a very narrow waist and 'elbowed' antennae. |
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From termite mounds to spiders' webs, we ventured through a little ecosystem where the arrival of a stranger carrying a large egg had caused amazement. |
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When an opening is made in a termitarium, soldiers crowd into the breach, and either stop the invaders or fill the breach with their termite dead. |
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The most voracious cable-muncher in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of Australia is the termite, or white ant, which eats through both lead and polythene sheathings. |
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Homeowners may mistake carpenter bee damage for termite damage. |
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The influence of mound structure on the diversity of spiders inhabiting the abandoned mounds of the snouted harvester termite Trinervitermes trinervoides. |
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Most wood decomposition in the digestive tract of subterranean termite workers occurs in food vacuoles of flagellate protozoan symbionts in the hindgut. |
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The wood porch was a honeycomb of termite tunnels before we replaced it. |
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Wood particles take about 24 hours to pass through lower termite gut, most of that time being digested in food vacuoles of hindgut flagellate protozoa. |
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Other locations that may be conducive to termite activity include high-moisture areas near the roof downspout, sprinkler heads or air conditioner drip lines. |
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It is also important to know that dryrot is a bigger problem in many areas that termite damage, and a termite inspection generally ignores dryrot. |
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Although termites are uricotelic, feces of a subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes Kollar, were reported to have only trace amounts of uric acid. |
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