- Termites cause more damage than tornadoes, hail storms,
wind storms, and hurricanes combined.
- Termites have been around for more than 240 million years.
They adapt to ever changing environments. Termites are
natures way to break down wood and return it to the soil.
- Termites never stop working and eating. They work 24 hours a day.
- Termite colonies can average more than a million termites.
- The termites love to live in warm, moist soil.
- Termites construct airtight mud tunnels when they have to leave the
soil to get to a food source.
- Termite, common name for numerous species of social insects that cause
damage to wooden structures.
- Most of the about 2000 known species are distributed in tropical countries,
although some inhabit North and South America and two species inhabit
Europe.
- Termite colonies, which may number from 100 to more than 1 million
termites, have several different castes with different functions.
- A queen can lay eggs at a rate of about 30,000 eggs a day in some
species.
- Apart from the reproductive, all castes are sterile and wingless
and have whitish bodies..
- All species have soldiers whose role is to defend the colony.
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