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Termite
Even the mention of a termite can send terror into the
heart of a homeowner. Many people
know that a termite can cause huge damage to a home
and when you take one termite and add
it to another termite and then another and another and
another, you might find yourself with a
home that is not only unsound but extremely difficult to
sell and live in. Many people know
about the termite, but not many people know specifics
about this pesky insect.
A termite â€" also known as a white ant â€" is a member
of a group of social insects much like
regular ants. They most often feed on dead plant material
including wood, leaf litter, and soil.
The termite can cause huge damage to structures such as
houses, building, crops, and forests.
The termite superficially resembles an ant and is called a
white ant only because of their social
behaviors and similar size.
However, the regular termite is softer, whiter, shorter-
legged, fatter
and generally much slower moving. In actuality, a
termite is much more similar to the common
cockroach. Some experts feel like the termite belongs in
its own classification of insects instead
of being clumped together with ants in the Hymemoptra
class or a super order which contains
all of them called the Dictyoptera class.
The common termite has a biting mouthpart and their
soft bodies are rarely longer than one
centimeter in length. As a colony, they typically inhabit
dark nests and tunnels, only venturing
out when the winged alates emerge to leave their parent
colony, when constructing shelter or, in
the case of grass- and leaf-litter-feeders, when harvesting
their food. The alate is basically a
baby termite growing into a full blown termite and
getting ready to venture out into the world to
find their own food source to decimate!
As with ants, the termite resides in a colony along with
other termites. That is why they are
referred to as social insects. Termite colonies can
number anywhere from hundreds to even
millions of inhabitants. They work together to survive
and use self-organized swarm intelligence
to obtain food sources and sustain the colony.
Just as with ants, there is a certain hierarchy
within the colony. It is usually “ruled†by a queen
and there are workers, soldiers, nymphs, and
reproductive termites responsible for re-populating the
colony.
While a termite is a dreaded insect for most people, they
are easily recognized and easily
controlled when you know that you have a problem. If
you take the time to know about the
common termite, see the signs that you may have a
termite problem, and then take steps to
alleviate the problem, you will have much luck in
repairing the damage that these invading
insects can do.
What Are Termites
In the basic definition, termites are small, burrowing
insects that eat wood â€" especially damp
wood â€" and resemble small white ants.
But there’s so much more than that!
In actuality,
termites are social creatures â€" just like we are â€" that
live with a specific social order to take care
of the colony that they live in.
That’s right â€" there are actually levels of termite
hierarchy, just like in human life. Because they
are social insects, this type of setup works best for them
because they don’t possess the same
skills that we humans do in order to get things done.
But, get things done, they certainly do!
There are basically five levels of termites: the worker, the
soldier, the reproductive, the king,
and the queen. Each distinctive level has its own duties
when it comes to the colony. Termites
have long been referred to as “little white antsâ€,
and there are a few â€" very few â€" similarities
between the two species.
Ants also live in colonies with each level performing
specific functions within the community.
They all work together to make sure that they all live in
relative peace having food and
protection. Not so unlike humans, right? But termites as
well as ants can be damaging to our
structures which is why we don’t want them around.
That’s why we need to better understand how the
colonies work. When we understand this part
of their living environment, we can better combat them.
We are, of course, talking about
termites â€" which is what this book is about.
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