termite
white ant
Isoptera latin

Remember, the termites spent over a century just building it.

How do I know if termites are eating my house?

Scientists have been working to find another way to fight termites.

Soon their concerns would turn from termites to the quality of work being done.

Further, he had no strong feelings toward the termites, one way or another.

So do the million and a half termites living in the colony.

Actually, termites will often attack a house as it is being built.

Termites do the same thing, I understand, but more quietly.

So she brought it up with the owner, who said the building used to have termites but no longer did.

Let that go too long and the termites could take it right down to the foundation in a few years.

An analogy might be made to termites that get inside your house.

It was once used as a soil treatment for termite control.

On the contrary, they and indeed most other termites certainly have.

But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down."

Americans live in big house, but termites eat at foundations.

It was like a house that had been eaten by termites.

Some species prey on the termites but others do not.

And the word gets around among the termites that it's time to turn the arch.

Termites started to get to one corner so I fixed that.

But what happens when termites claim your house for dinner?

Termites, Hay thought; and knew that he had come home.

The house is still beautiful, but we may have termites."

"They are the termites of society," she says, her voice soft and high.

There is an old joke about the termites holding hands to keep a building up.

They make up the majority of the termites that actually eat the wood.

I tried to keep the whole skin but the white ants got at it."

White ants may have reached the top of a tree, and yet they were underground not long ago.

But what if I put down my heel and crush you, little white ant?

The borers and the white ants will have seen to the rest, long before this.

Nor will she talk thus any more, the white ant who has gone back into its tunnel."

The luggage was overrun with white ants, instead of being attended to every morning.

Still, the white ant can never procure food until it does come above the surface of the soil.

Extensive alterations were made to the church in 1919 due to damage caused by white ants.

Accordingly I constructed a kiln, with the assistance of the white ants.

They enter the hole, and they destroy every white ant in the building.

When a tree is cut down, white ants immediately swarm toward the food thus unwittingly provided for them by man.

They will undermine my power as the white ant chews through wood."

There lay war spears, their shafts crumbling before the attacks of the white ants.

Unfortunately they omitted ant caps from the stumps and the white ants took over.

For a short time you fancy that you have pitched upon the only spot in the country where there are no white ants.

This would have kept out white ants and helped prevent plant life growing inside the stupa.

A new school was built as the old school was infested by white ants.

Termites, although sometimes called white ants, are not ants.

In the 1980's, art historians went through his work like white ants in search of something new and valid to say.

They accordingly pour a little treacle on the ground within a yard of the hole occupied by the white ants.

Despite many modifications made during the period 1764-1778 the Château was in ruins in 1778 due to white ants.

A dictionary of Ishafani, which had been eaten by white ants came under his observation.

They learn which trees are useful for building houses and grain stores, such as those which resist white ants.

It includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc.

He lay for hours at a time on the floor of the cell, staring at minute moving things, small white ants, microscopic worms.

Termites are placed in a different order from ants, the Isoptera.

Termites are an order of social insects, the Isoptera.

They belong to the order Isoptera.

Termites, though sometimes called white ants, are not ants and belong to the order Isoptera.

Hymenoptera are the only other order, besides Isoptera (termites), to have evolved complex social systems with division of labor.

The Rhinotermitidae are a family of termites (Isoptera).

Isoptera (Termites)

Isoptera (termites)

Termites (order Isoptera), like eusocial ants, wasps, and bees, rely on a caste system to protect their nests.

This may be achieved, as in the soldier caste of Isoptera, by a backward extension of the postmentum and genae.

The termites, traditionally classified in their own order (Isoptera), have recently been re-considered to belong in Blattodea.

It has usually been considered a superorder, with Isoptera, Blattaria and Mantodea being its three orders.

Dampwood termites (Termopsidae) constitute a small and rather primitive family of termites (Isoptera).

Amitermitinae constitute a subfamily of harvester termites & allies (family Termitidae) in the Isoptera order.

It is produced by termite soldiers of Prorhinotermes genus (Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae) as a defensive chemical.

The eusocial insects are confined to two orders, the Isoptera (termites) and the Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants).

A meron is well developed in Periplaneta, the Isoptera, Neuroptera and Lepidoptera.

The families of Mantodea, Isoptera, and Blattaria are usually combined by entomologists into a larger group called Dictyoptera.

Mantodea, Blattodea and Isoptera are thought to form a monophyletic group termed Dictyoptera.

Description of an early Cretaceous termite (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) and its associated intestinal protozoa, with comments on their co-evolution.

Zoraptera are minute, hemimetabolous insects superficially resembling barklice (Psocoptera) or termites (Isoptera).

Zootermopsis angusticollis is a species of termite (Isoptera) in the family Termopsidae, a group known as the dampwood termites.

Especially in his later years his main research interest was in social insects and the transitional phases in sociality, particularly in the Hymenoptera and Isoptera.

Parastylotermes is an extinct genus of termite in the Isoptera family Stylotermitidae known from North America, Europe, and India.

Isoptera: termites (CSIRO Australia Entomology).