Termites
Six-Legged Terrorists
by Jay W. Sharp
Termites, to us humans, amount to not much more than six-legged terrorists, ...
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Termite
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
or white ant, common name for a soft-bodied social insect of the order Isoptera.
Termites have biting mouthparts and their soft bodies are small, rarely over 10 mm in length.
Termites, sometimes known as white ants, are a group of social insects usually classified at the taxonomic rank of order Isoptera.
Termite Project
University of Hawai'i - Manoa. Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.
The back of the termite mound in the exhibit. The door is heavy gauge steel that has the hinges welded into place. A strong padlock is used.
Termites are eaten predominately in the rainy season and ants during the dry season. As soon as a colony (ant or termite) has been found, it uses its long sticky tongue to eat the insects, eggs and larvae.
Termite mounds are everywhere here, and many animals make use of them. Here is a troop of banded mongooses running for cover in their burrows in a termite mound. I really wanted to call them mongeese but that's not what the mammal books say.
The termite mound is in the exhibit and has a tube that goes to the other side, kept behind a locked door. During the demos, we unlock the door, place mealworms in our hands, and hold one end of the tube over the mealworms.
Wild: termites, crickets, ants, fruit flies, aphids, spiders
habitat/range
Habitat: tropical rain forest - dark and moist environment
Range: Southern Surinam ...
Once a termite or ant nest is opened the anteater will eat until the stings from the insects become too frequent and painful, then move on to another nest. For this reason they are not territorial, but rather nomadic, always seeking new nests.
Termites.
Behaviour
The only fully day-active marsupial, numbats are solitary, with large home ranges. They spend the night in hollow logs or occasional burrows.
Diet: Termites, ants, beetles, scorpions, centipedes, and flies.
Habitat: Mojave Desert Scrub in areas with Blackbrush or with Honey Mesquite and Catclaw Acacia (wash habitats); ...
Omnivore. Termites, locusts, centipedes, other insects, small mammals like mice, berries, acacia flowers, and fruit. Usually feeds and scavenges on the ground.
Predators and Threats
Considered pests, humans are their biggest threat.
Magnetic termite (Amitermes meridionalis)
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Anis feed on termites, large insects and even lizards and frogs. The claim that they will remove ticks and other parasites from grazing animals has been disputed; ...
Typical foods: termites, other soft-bodied insects, insect larvae
Appearance
The Brahminy Blind Snake looks somewhat like an earthworm. The adult is shiny and dark brown to grayish black in color with a somewhat lighter lower surface.
The hole in the termite nest is gradually enlarged by the aardvark until it can get its whole body inside the nest, but it will not destroy it in a single visit, preferring to return several nights in a row to feed on the ants or termites.
Insects such as termites, ants, beetles, insect larvae; occasionally fruit. The giant anteater fulfills it's need for water by licking wet vegetation.
GESTATION:
180-190 days; one offspring per birth ...
Mainly ants and termites, from which the frog derives the chemicals necessary to synthesize its poisonous skin secretion. When kept in captivity and denied their natural diet of toxic insects, they eventually lose their potency.
The numbat eats termites almost exclusively. They are obtained from rotten logs, dead trees, and subsurface soil.
The [aardwolf], a termite-eating hyaenid, was once thought to have split off from other hyaenids very early, because its weak jaws and feeble teeth are so different. But there are no hyaenid fossils that seem related.
This nest was in a termites' nest about 3 metres up a tree. The puffbird excavates a chamber in the termites nest and the termites immediately restore the walls opened by the puffbird but leave the puffbird's chamber undisturbed.
Numbats eat only termites (white ants).
They are also called 'the banded anteater'.
They have long sticky tongues to catch termites.
Ants look much like termites, and the two are often confused-especially by nervous homeowners. However, ants have a narrow "waist" between the abdomen and thorax, which termites do not. Ants also have large heads, elbowed antennae, and powerful jaws.
What are the differences between ants and termites?
What are the differences between bugs and beetles?
What are the differences between butterflies and moths?
What are the differences between flies and wasps?
Importance of termites in the diet of the aardwolf Proteles cristatus in South Africa. S. Afr. J. Zool. 14.
Du Plessis, SF, 1969. The past and present geographical distribution of the Perrisodactyla and Artiodactyla in Southern Africa. M.Sc.
Topi are most famous for their sentry position, in which a single animal will stand on a termite mound for hours surveying the surrounding territory.
The aardvark is nocturnal and is a solitary creature that feeds almost exclusively on ants and termites (formicivore);[6] the only fruit eaten by aardvarks is the aardvark cucumber.
In their natural environment these birds nest in termite mounds, digging out a long upward climbing entry that then makes a sharp turn into a cavity dug out in the middle of the mound.
they specialize on ants and termites, with the majority of their diet being ants. They dig rapidly into the sides or center of ant and termite nests or mounds, while feeding at the same time.
Aardvarks are found in all regions, from dry savanna to rain forest, where there are sufficient termites for food, access to water and sandy or clay soil.
Food consists mainly of grain, grass seeds, fallen berries, shoots, tubers, termites, ants and insects. The Black Francolins are usually seen in pairs or small droves of up to five birds.
: The diet of echidnas is largely made up of ants and termites, although, they will eat other invertebrates especially grubs, larvae, and worms.
Hollow logs and tree cavities are the preferred nesting sites of most psittacines, although some use termite mounds. Most species do not line the nest; Lovebirds are an exception.
Associated with termites, the mounds of which this species nests in; termite mounds are a critical habitat component.
Individuals require large areas of habitat.
Feeds on carrion, birds, eggs, reptiles and small mammals.
The Aardwolf is a very specialised predator, with a diet that is made up almost exclusively of termites. In the southern population, the main food is the nocturnal termites Trinervitermes trinervoides.
Do not mix them up with termites. These small insects that also live in colonies, usually reside in rotting wood and are not related to ants at all. In colonies of termites we always find a king besides the queen.
Pangolins feed only on burrowing social insects, such as ants and termites. Some are arboreal, living in trees; others live in burrows. Pangolins have stout, strong, clawed limbs, used for digging into ant and termite mounds.
Tropical grassland animals (which do not all occur in the same area) include giraffes, zebras, buffaloes, kangaroos, mice, moles, gophers, ground squirrels, snakes, worms, termites, beetles, lions, leopards, hyenas, and elephants.
They also eat termites, consuming both in vast quantities, sometimes up to 35 000 insects in a single day.
Snakes consume a variety of items including termites, rodents, birds, frogs, small deer and other reptiles.
DIET Sloth bears feed extensively on termites and have special adaptations for doing this: The naked lips are capable of protruding, and the inner pair of upper incisors are missing, which forms a gap through which termites can be sucked.
Their sturdy, spade-like nails easily rip through hard earth and termite mounds. Their thick skin is sparsely covered with hair that ranges in color from brownish to yellowish gray.
The fourth species, the aardwolf, subsists on termites. Members of this family usually have bushy tails, rounded ears, ...
They nest in a natural cavity in a tree, stump or snag, in old woodpecker holes, tree forks or depressions, occasionally in a sand bank or termite mound.
But it was the use of sticks to collect the termites that was the part of Dr. Goodall's discovery that people found most surprising. Dr.
Daly and Valerie Clark dusted these substances onto termites and fruit flies and fed the spiced prey to captive frogs. When Thomas F. Spande and another NIDDK chemist, H.
They use sticks to dig termites out of termite mounds, stones to crack nuts, and leaves to soak up drinking water or to clean themselves.
The Kookaburras use hollows in tree trunks and excavated termite nests to lay their eggs. The eggs of this bird range from two to four and are pure white in color. The females as well as the male Kookaburra bird help to incubate the eggs.
Giant anteaters have long, tubular snouts, well adapted for working its way into the ant hills and termite nests it rips open with its large claws. The anteater's tounge is sticky, helping to gather the tiny insects it eats.
The Poison Arrow Frog lives on small insects such as ants, spiders, flies, mites and termites. Their average life span is about 4 - 6 years in the rainforest (in captivity they can survive between 10 - 12 years).
eats mainly termite and ant larvae.
Breeding
Lays eggs.
Range
south western Kansas, western Oklahoma, central Texas, southern New Mexico, south eastern Arizona.
The ovaries (fig. 13) in the female are paired, each ovary consisting of a variable number of tubes (one in the bristle-tail Campodea and fifteen hundred in a queen termite) in which the eggs are developed.
The nostrils of the muzzle can be closed at will, possibly as an adaptation to the defenses of the termites which make up a large portion of their diet.
During feeding periods, a sentry watches for potential sources of danger, and can often be seen standing on a termite mound in order to increase the range of visibility.
Aardvarks are insectivores that eat ants and termites. They use their large claws to dig into ant hills and termite mounds and then stick their long, sticky, extensile tongue into the nest or mound to get the insects.
The chief food is moths, although they are known to also eat beetles, flies, grasshoppers, termites, dragonflies, and wasps.
 See also: Burro, Beetle, Lizard, Reptile, Anteater
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