#termites — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #termites, aggregated by home.social.
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I guess there's a certain art...
Also, I can't help but think it'd be a lot less breezy inside if those gaps letting the outside in were still behind gyprock. 🥶
Importantly, it's fixable, & will cost much less than rebuilding. Plus I'll still have a home during the work!
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Gardener throws out termite-infested manure after learning cow waste may carry another threat to the garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1808504/gardener-throws-out-termite-infested-manure-after-learning-cow-waste-may-carry-another-threat-to-the-garden/ #CompostIngredients #CowManure #garden #gardener #gardening #TCD #termites
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Bistrifluron effectively eliminates drywood termite colonies safely
📰 Original title: New chemical kills 95% of termites without harming humans
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🐾🐜 A giant #anteater mother walks through the Brazilian #grasslands with her pup riding on her back for camouflage.
They use powerful claws and a tongue nearly 60cm long to catch up to 30,000 #insects every day. Ant eating is so successful that it evolved at least 12 separate times in different species.
#animals #babies #brazil #cute #grass #hunting #insectivores #nature #parenting #southamerica #termites #tksst #video
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🐾🐜 A giant #anteater mother walks through the Brazilian #grasslands with her pup riding on her back for camouflage.
They use powerful claws and a tongue nearly 60cm long to catch up to 30,000 #insects every day. Ant eating is so successful that it evolved at least 12 separate times in different species.
#animals #babies #brazil #cute #grass #hunting #insectivores #nature #parenting #southamerica #termites #tksst #video
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Researchers Use Pine Scent to Dramatically Improve Termite Control
📰 Original title: 95% success rate: This new trick lures termites straight to their death
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/researchers-use-pine-scent-to-dramatically-improve-termite-control/?redirpost=9647add4-8d19-4ae0-b392-a7d86ffdcdf9
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The Explorers (from The Australians series)
Published between 1979 and 1990 under the pen name William Stuart Long, these novels shaped the imagination of Australia as heroic, empty and waiting to be claimed. Fenwick describes them as ‘settler fan fiction’, popular myth-making narratives that reinforced a particular vision of settlement.
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Termitaria, Larrakia land
Often called ‘compass’ mounds, they are aligned precisely on a north-south axis to minimise sun exposure and keep the colony cool.Photograph: Liss Fenwick
Photograph: Liss Fenwick
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Termitaria, Larrakia land
Unlike the subterranean termites that eat wood & paper, these magnetic termites construct tall, external mounds. Their forms – broad east–west faces, thin north–south edges – demonstrate a precise intelligence for regulating temperature and airflow.Photograph: Liss Fenwick
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🐜🏘️ Invasive subterranean #termites are moving through #Florida at an alarming rate.
New #research shows that warming temperatures are allowing these destructive #insects to expand their territory farther north than ever before.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/termite-spread-florida/
#entomology #science #environment #STEM #climatechange #climate
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I just learned that #termites contain bacteria in their gut that produce lots of #CO2 and #H2 from the wood fibers they eat. AND THEN they have ANOTHER type of bacteria that feeds on the #CO2 and #H2 , to produce acetate that in turn THE #termites THEMSELF eat! How cool!
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019316
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Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a taste for #ants and #termites.
Mammals independently evolved specialized adaptations for exclusively feeding on ants and termites at least 12 times since the #Cenozoic era began, roughly 66 million years ago.
The #convergent #evolution among #mammals toward this dietary strategy—called #myrmecophagy—emerged following the K-Pg #extinction and fall of non-avian dinosaurs, which reshaped ecosystems and set the stage for ant and termite colonies to rapidly expand worldwide.
Over 200 mammal #species are known to eat ants and termites today, yet only about 20 true myrmecophages—such as giant anteaters, aardvarks and pangolins—have evolved traits like long sticky tongues, specialized claws and stomachs, and reduced or missing teeth, to efficiently consume thousands of these insects daily as their sole food source.
#evolution #ecology #biology
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-mammals-evolved-ant-eaters-dinosaur.htmlVida et al. (2025):
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Ars Technica has cooked up a story about #termites curating their gardens like tiny, six-legged Martha Stewarts. 🐜🌿 Apparently, these industrious insects are the new pioneers in pest management, proving yet again that humans are just playing catch-up with bugs. 🙄🔍
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/termite-farmers-fine-tune-their-weed-control/ #gardening #pestmanagement #natureinnovation #entomology #HackerNews #ngated -
#Mammals that chose #ants and #termites as #food almost never go back
A study reveals that this extreme #dietary specialization, once thought rare and mysterious, has emerged independently in mammals at least 12 times in the last 66 million years (i.e., since the Cenozoic era began). This is a striking example of convergent #evolution and shows just how powerful ants and termites have been in shaping mammalian history.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/mammals-that-chose-ants-and-termites-as-food-almost-never-go-back/ -
started a #wikipedia article on American entomologist and college professor Caroline Burling Thompson (1869-1921): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Burling_Thompson @wikiwomeninred @wellesleyalums #UPenn #Philadelphia #termites #ants #WomeninSTEM
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The NBN was responsible for me finding termites. What?
Termites are a big issue here. I've had minor & significant damage over the years.
After some duds, we got a reliable inspection company. The owner retired & they were bought by the big one. Standards dropped immediately. Visits were done, but it was obvious bait stations were being skipped. I paid for my last contract & was ignored for 6mths. The contract was later extended - after I chased them, but damage done.
#termites
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@KateShaw has made a new episode, and would you believe it's about termites? https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/08/18/episode-446-termites/
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Bird Wings Good; Bat Wings Bad
Have you ever noticed that good religious creatures, like angels, have what can only be described as bird wings? Meanwhile, evil religious creatures, such as demons, have wings that are blatantly like that of a bat.
The only bad thing I can think of for a bat is that they can give rabies to humans whereas birds can’t. The reason they are so susceptible to rabies is because they are closer to humans than birds are. They are mammals, just like us. Whereas birds are part of the bird family of vertebrates. Birds are descended from the dinosaurs and have their own diseases to worry about.
Mammals survived the apocalypse that wiped out the dinosaurs (except birds) and basically took over almost all the niches that dinosaurs were in. Dinosaurs were tall so mammals became giraffes. Dinosaurs were big so mammals became the blue whale, the biggest creature that has ever lived. Dinosaurs could fly so bats took to the sky.
Bats nurse their young, thus proving they are a caring species of mammal.
Another thing which seemingly makes them bad is that they come out at night. But this is really more of a testament about how birds are evil in daylight. Bats don’t brave the day because they are likely to be dinner for some bird with 100 million years more of flying experience. And those daytime birds can be big with nasty talons and sharp beaks.
As a fellow mammal, we should be proud of our bat cousins. They can fly in the dark because they use sonar. They have good vocalizations that their good ears can pick up and that their good brains can use to figure out what the terrain is – even in the dark.
Still think birds are superior in the good/evil department? Then why is it a murder of crows, a conspiracy of ravens, a plague of grackles and a squabble of seagulls?
Actually a squabble isn’t that bad. So suddenly I see the truth. Bad is associated with black birds and bats because they are black.
This dark/ light thing of good and evil has got to go. Termites are white so they must be good. Maggots are white so they must be good. Polar bears are white so they must be good. It’s just not true. Black labs, black horses and even black cats can be very good.
Maybe I’ll retreat into fantasy which has some stories of good dragons who incidentally have giant black bat wings. It’s more realistic than the angel/ demon characterizations of religion.
#angels #batWings #batsNurseTheirYoung #birdWings #black #blueWhales #cats #conspiracyOfRavens #day #dayBirdsAreEvilToBats #demons #dinosaurs #dragons #evil #giraffes #good #horses #labs #maggots #mammals #murderOfCrows #night #plagueOfGrackles #polarBears #rabies #sonar #squabbleOfSeagulls #termites #white
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Some termites, genus Hospitalitermes, spotted moving objects along a tree branch at MacRitchie Reservoir Park, Singapore on 2 Feb 2025. There were, of course, a lot more termites moving about.
These termites are quite common in nature areas.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/260360911 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Termites #Blattodea
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@freequaybuoy @futurebird My own recommendation in this direction is “Professor Mmaa's Lecture“ by Stefan Themerson (if you like termites).
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If you ever travel to New Orleans and notice lots of round metal plates embedded in the sidewalk, they are bait stations for termites. Details on my blog. #termites #insects #entomology #nola #NewOrleans #FrenchQuarter #MardiGras https://colinpurrington.com/2025/03/termite-bait-stations-in-new-orleans-sidewalks/
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New on Entomology Today: Nearly 400 species of fungus-farming termites can be found across Asia and Africa, and their small colony sizes, sporadic foraging, and broad diets make them harder to manage, with leading termite baits often ineffective. A new research review examines what we know and what needs further study to improve control strategies for fungus-growing termites in the subfamily Macrotermitinae. #entomology #insects #termites https://entomologytoday.org/2025/01/29/fungus-growing-termites-challenging-control-bait/
