Social habitat

Insects. It loves to eat crops, leather, biological corpses and fibrous substances, and even books in the library, and sometimes it will be shredded, making it impossible for people to read. white ant

Be addicted to food

Wood, with wood fiber as the main source of nutrition. So wooden posts, stakes,

sleeping berth

、

mine timber

, even

Qiu Qianjia

Trees have become a delicacy for termites. Due to the damage of termites, some wooden buildings, such as houses, ships, swing frames, etc., are often eroded by countless holes like tunnels, and the wood becomes decadent and fragile, which is easy to break, so accidents such as collapse, sinking and fracture often occur.

Termites damage wood at an alarming rate, resulting in huge losses. It takes 10 days for intermediate termites to transform for 30 days.

cubic centimeter

Eat all the wood. To build a wooden structure of about 70 square meters in the wild, only a large group of termites need to nest.

insect

It needs to be rebuilt in 2 ~ 3 years, otherwise it is in danger of collapse. When that reproduction of termite colony expand,

Female ant

、

Male ant

The nest can be

expand

Out of the tens of meters long channel, will endanger the building,

railway bridge

And warehouse items.

When food is scarce, termites also eat sand, cement, wires, rubber and plastic products, which are big pests that harm sleepers, bridges, houses and dikes, and also do great harm to crops, fruit trees and forests. Termite is a worldwide pest with many kinds and wide distribution, which is extremely harmful to agriculture, forestry, water conservancy projects, buildings, railways and bridges.