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Termite Alate Flight
Have you heard that termites can nest in trees?
They certainly can.
And here is an example in that large tree, if you look
where the arrow is, you will see a winged termite, termite
alates about to take flight, often on a very
humid afternoon, quite often
following a storm.
You find that thousands
and hundreds of thousands of termites will fly out
of a nest like the one that you saw.
And this is what we tend to see.
They will be attracted to light. But what’s going to happen?
These hundreds of thousands of termites, many of them will be picked off by predators, birds, ants,other things.
or get caught in, in spiderwebs and that sort of caper.
But what they’re going to do is,eventually they’ll drop their wings, they’ll crawl around,
find a mate, and all they need to do is to be able to find a little bit of timber and some moisture and they can start building a nest.
Five to seven years later, we’ve got a full-blown nest that can potentially let another half a million termites emerge.
What you might see around your place could just be some wings like this in a cobweb, or you might find some strange little creatures around the place. This is on someone’s hand. You need to be aware that this is going on.
Those ants, they’re doing you a favour. If you see this where they’ve collected termites,
you wanna make sure termites do not set up nest at your home.
Termites
Termites nesting in a tree
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