"There is no evidence that the real termite Psammotermes allocerus does what the computer 'termite' does," he said.
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This bird was spotted in South Africa's semi-arid Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, where it was seen eating termite after termite for nearly an hour.
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Complex large-scale patterns can be found in termite mounds elsewhere, so we might imagine the subterranean version of a termite city to be similarly symmetrical.
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Of course there are limitations—the cardboard lab setup wasn't a real termite nest, and this work was done in just a single termite species (Reticulitermes speratus).
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Termite damage: Wood balconies or decks that have wood-rot or visible termite damage are usually a sign that the house has termites in the walls, too.
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Termite Tossing, Willem Kruger, South AfricaUsing the tip of its large beak-like forceps, a southern yellow-billed hornbill flicks a termite into the air and gobbles it up.
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Today in "that sounds nice," a group of biologists studying termite colonies in southern Japan have discovered all-female colonies that function perfectly without even a single male termite being involved.
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Molesworth's exhibition One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art displays Farber's paintings, spanning from the early 1970s to 2000, alongside contemporary art that is similarly "termite" in nature.
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Also like lungs, a termite mound has a role as a secondary diffusion system, which carries oxygen to and carbon dioxide away from the far reaches of the underground termite nest.
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The termite mounds are located in dense, low caatinga forests.
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Because I don't want to end up like a termite.
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The ant, called Megaponera analis, specializes in raiding termite nests.
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At one point, there was a really bad termite infestation.
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"Mysterious Castles of Clay" (1978) was about giant termite mounds.
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You're as evolved as a termite-hunting ant called Megaponera analis.
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Whereas currently at MOCA, the galleries are filled with termite art.
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Smith and her husband to clear termite mounds from the airstrip.
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Overpriced, yes; heavily mortgaged and termite-infested, yes; but it's theirs.
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The big ant carries two termite soldiers in its mouth as prey.
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Termite mounds are among the largest structures built by any nonhuman animal.
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Some of these microbes are themselves, like the termite superorganism, composite animals.
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New termite colonies are founded on windless evenings, at dusk, after the rain.
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We had to throw out everything because it was covered in termite wings.
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A termite attack forced the closing of a dinosaur exhibit in late 22014.
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Termite mounds in Africa have been found to be around this old as well.
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The church's pastor says they've faced foundation, roof, and termite problems, among other issues.
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Shipping containers are air-tight, water-tight, fire and wind resistant, and termite resistant.
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While people living in the region knew of the termite mounds, few outsiders did.
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Is it messed up that being a southern Japanese termite sounds awesome right about now?
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Two 20kg nocturnal porcupines had been tracked to their tunnel system in a termite mound.
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In her piece, Srinivasan describes many "unsavory termite tales," but there are savory tales, too.
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If you call up the ESA's updated Common Names of Insects Database and search for bugs under the insect order Blattodea, you'll now see the Arid Land Subterranean Termite, the Forest Tree Termite listed alongside the American Cockroach, the Brown Cockroach, and other roaches.
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Image: Roy FunchScientists have discovered an immense grouping of freakishly large termite mounds in northeastern Brazil.
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The small skeleton was covered in organic material, likely the termite-munched remnants of a coffin.
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Nearly all rescued ants participated in later termite invasions, sometimes within an hour of the injury.
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Weird markers, something like tall, narrow termite mounds, mark circles around various territories in the woods.
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The protist Trichonympha , found in some termite guts, is itself host to colonies of symbiotic bacteria.
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Unlike evolution's panoply of affectionate same-sex partnerships, coupled termite males are all about heartbreak and bloodshed.
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A roadside poop emoji made from a termite mound may be the start of a new trend.
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The Palais Idéal looked to me like a termite hill disgorged mid-gurgle by a colossal oyster.
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In fact, only twenty-eight of approximately twenty-six hundred identified species of termite are invasive pests.
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The movie critic Manny Farber's notion of "termite art" is cited, for example, in four separate essays.
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Crucial to this transition may have been a willingness, by termite queens, to cooperate when establishing colonies.
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Wikipedia isn't raised up wholesale, like a barn; it's assembled grain by grain, like a termite mound.
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A German scientist has come up with an explanation for the strange rings of grass that pockmark…Read more ReadAccording to the termite hypothesis, an industrious species of termite called Psammotermes allocerus is engineering Fairy Circles by killing the plants above them, creating bare patches that concentrate moisture.
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A Matabele ant treats a wounded comrade whose limbs were bitten off during a fight with termite soldiers.
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"Manpower, that's the main thing," said Claudia Riegel, director of the city's Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board.
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Termite-hunting ants in sub-Saharan Africa treat each other's wounds by licking them, according to new research.
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" Termite-raiding ant, Level 2, "The debilitating pain of a migraine contained in the tip of your finger.
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The 12-foot-high ceilings cool the interior by forcing hot air up and out, like the hollow tubes in the termite mounds, ubiquitous in Paraguay, that give the house its name: Vivienda Takuru, or "Termite Mound Dwelling," which combines the country's two official languages of Spanish and indigenous Guaraní.
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Subterranean termites eat 24/7, making them the most destructive termite found in the U.S., according to the NPMA.
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A Matabele ant, handicapped by a clinging termite, is carried off by a foraging African stink ant (Paltothyreus tarsatus).
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During one taping, Berk explains that the crew discovered a termite infestation, and needed to knock out several walls.
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The termite-raiding ant is a 2, as is a sting you may be more familiar with — the honeybee's.
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In a study published this week in BMC Biology, scientists reported the first discovery of all-female termite societies.
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Its warped mud brick had an organic feel to it, like termite mounds sprung up out of the dirt.
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They knew the Wallace's giant bee tended to be found in the lowland forest and tree-dwelling termite nests.
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The mansion's new owner, Daren Metropoulos, has been cleared to replace plumbing and to repair dry rot and termite damage.
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His team collected 74 mature colonies of Glyptotermes nakajimai, a termite that nests in drywood, from 15 sites in Japan.
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Wikipedia, in other words, isn't raised up wholesale, like a barn; it's assembled grain by grain, like a termite mound.
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Early-modern European naturalists peered into termite mounds, anthills, and beehives and saw microcosms of well-ordered states: monarchs, soldiers, laborers.
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She told me that this was not magic but the sign of a termite infestation, and made me throw it out.
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The cone-shape mounds are the work of Syntermes dirus, among the largest termite species at about half an inch long.
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An "inconvenient insect," the termite bucks basic biological rules and thumbs its nose at science as much as it does homeowners.
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The team went from termite nest to nest in the forests of remote islands known as the North Moluccas, Bolt said.
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Like their namesake, Matabele ants are formidable warriors, marching in along rows of 200 to 600 individuals toward termite-infested foraging sites.
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Native to Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the termite-eating pangolins are thought to be the most trafficked animals in the world.
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From inquisitive fox cubs and invisible fish through to termite tossing birds and courting cuttlefish, this year's crop is guaranteed to astound.
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Pest extermination is big business in these parts and specialties vary — from African bee catchers to termite killers and roof-rat snatchers.
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My professor on the subject, an entomologist named Alfred E. Emerson, described how he located termite mounds by following aardvarks in Africa.
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The interior of a termite mound is an intricate structure of interweaving tunnels and passageways, radiating chambers, galleries, archways, and spiral staircases.
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And in fact, entomologist L. R. Cleveland suspected this back in the 1930s, and as did termite-expert Christine Nalepa in the 1990s.
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A contractor noticed an area in the bedroom closet that looked unusual, and subsequent investigation revealed termite damage to the tune of $250,000.
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"I would never be comfortable supporting someone who called, 'I am not anti-Semite, I am an anti-termite,' " McCain said, quoting Farrakhan.
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Imagine if your house was Kilauea Volcano, and you had a termite infestation, and the termites would pop out in one little corner.
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Another night we awoke with the unpleasant revelation that we'd pitched our tent next to an enormous termite mound, and they were swarming.
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Stirring from wind, much like a muscle contraction, allows gases to mix and reach important places like a termite nest or human blood.
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It could have been TERMITE and we probably would have lost the crosswordese ADIN, but there's nothing wrong with learning a new word.
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A scout goes out to reconnoiter a termite nest, then returns to lead a battalion of 200 to 500 ants to the buffet.
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My parents spent long days there renovating the termite-ridden 1970s farmhouse while I played in the fields or read in the car.
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Using Google Earth, some researchers were able to identify these structures as being termite mounds, but the size of the superstructure was largely unknown.
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This "over-dispersed spatial mound pattern," in the words of the researchers, was thought to be the result of intra-termite conflict and competition.
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Terminix is the largest termite and pest control company in the United States, operating in 48 of the 50 states, according to the company.
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During these unprovoked attacks, large ants (called majors) break open the nest, and smaller ants (dubbed minors) rush in to kill the termite workers.
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An ant or termite has very little flexibility in their actions, but if you have a big cortex, you have a lot of flexibility.
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Manufacturing a termite biofuel would require identifying the genes for wood eating from the termite's microbe colony and inserting them into a cellular bag.
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Some fairy circle experts firmly placed in either team termite or team plant had strong doubts about the paper's findings, while others welcomed it.
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My wife and I breakfast on fresh coconut — neither sweet nor flavorful but fun to gnaw, for the feeling that you've acquired termite superpowers.
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Together, the team spent years searching for the insect until finally coming across the giant female bee inside of a termite nest this past January.
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Many plants and animals depend on them to spread seeds, create nesting sites and control the termite population -- functions that keep the ecosystems in balance.
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The platform also seems to have trouble catching coded hate speech, such as the word "termite," which can be used in an anti-Semitic context.
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Trilobites A discovery among termite colonies in Japan suggests that males can be discarded from advanced societies in which they once played an active role.
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" She goes on to answer her own question: "History is the sound of a floor underneath a rotten regime, termite-ridden and ready to fall.
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The Röntgens attribute the cost overruns to unrealistic initial projections, delays on the balcony installation, the manure pit and some wood replacement for termite damage.
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Bloody hand-to-hand combat ensued on a battlefield punctuated by termite mounds the size of pickup trucks and bodies strewn amid the elephant grass.
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One termite researcher, Hannah Davis, who's finishing her degree at the Freie Universität Berlin, told Gizmodo this was the strong evidence of age-based work differentiation.
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In the clip, Torres encounters a major termite problem at one of the properties and realizes that the owners didn't budget enough to deal with it.
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These male-male couples build nests together and share resources, just like a male-female termite partnerships, but one shouldn't be fooled by this heartwarming tableau.
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The termite is no longer what it was to earlier observers: a model of what humans could be—more coöperative and harmonious, less competitive and aggressive.
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Brokers call these homes stigmatized properties, but in New York State, disclosure is required only for material defects: leaky pipes, termite damage, lead paint, bedbug infestations.
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Its crude imagery and the sharp editing that implicitly contradicts it are deliberate components of a termite-like digging into the permutations of postmodern cultural work.
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Dr. Singh and his colleagues hope future studies of nests from other termite species will reveal general design principles that can be scaled up for humans.
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Dr. Tarnita worked with Juan Bonachela, a mathematician from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, to test the termite and plant explanations in a computer model.
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"Logically, if there are fairy circles without the presence of termites, the termite theory cannot be considered as a strong explanation for the phenomenon," he said.
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Flipping through that day's paper, Chase talks about sponsored print ads and points to the weather page, on which a termite-removal company has placed an advertisement.
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The AIADMK, according to Mr Venkatachalapathy, is organised around a "queen bee" or "mother termite" principle, and may not be able to function at all without her.
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Wandering through the museum, you might wonder, as I did, how termite art is any different from a still life or any art that depicts the everyday.
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Anywhere from two to four times each day, around 200 to 500 soldiers of this species align themselves in long columns and march toward termite foraging sites.
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One of the items the spouses of almost four years had to focus on sprucing up was the river rock-covered fireplace and the termite-infested mantel.
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And it lives not in nests with thousands of family members but largely alone in burrows in termite mounds, a tubular home it coats with waterproof resin.
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However, severe termite damage could require a costly solution, including lifting the house (yes, right off the ground) to access the foundation and check for further damage.
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While I was reading Lisa Margonelli's new book, " Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology ," I discovered that everyone I knew had an unsavory termite tale.
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But when they put a termite from one mound next to one from a neighboring mound, there was no conflict, indicating they were from the same family.
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"If you look at the physics of gas exchange in the lung, it's very much the same way as the termite mound is organized," said Dr. Turner.
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But I appreciate the complaint about work that's embalmed by self-consciousness, made by those grasping for Art instead of tunneling in, like the "termite" artists Farber preferred.
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Carl and Lori McCaughey called Terminix for a drywood termite problem because it's one of the largest pest-control companies around, with name recognition and a reputable brand.
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One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art continues at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) (250 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles) through March 11, 2019.
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Called "The Night Raider," the image was taken by photographer Marcio Cabral and depicts an anteater underneath starry skies next to a termite mound dotted with glowing bioluminescence.
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Click beetle larvae embedded on the outer layers of the termite mounds are glowing in a bioluminiscent green, which they do to lure in their prey—flying termites.
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But this mystery makes termites fascinating to Margonelli and a motley crew of multidisciplinary scientists all trying to crack the termite code and put it to good use.
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The bushbuck of Gorongosa, for example, are unusually brazen about venturing away from the concealing foliage that surrounds termite mounds, where the shy, slender antelope traditionally are found.
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"Danny thought they looked like the poo emoji and we wondered why no one had actually made one out of a termite mound yet," Amanda told The West Australian.
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Indeed, the termite mound is not so much a building as a body, a self-regulating organic process that continuously reacts to its changing environment, building and unbuilding itself.
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The many termite mounds in the region inspired him to become an artist, and he began using the wet mud the termites built with to erect statues of Osun.
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"It was a lot of walking around the forest in 90-degree heat and the highest possible humidity looking at termite nests and chasing after bees," said Dr. Robson.
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Linn's Single Horn Guardians look like they've been held together and torn apart for centuries, resembling vertical, shaft-like ancient termite mounds with carefully placed timeworn fissures and deliberate discolorations.
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I'm told Wallace's giant bee makes its nest in termite mounds, which is also cool, but if I'm being honest, the big bee's bigness is its primary appeal to me.
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This is exactly what happened during the previous simulation, where I also had to hop across rooftops and use a termite-looking "Weevil" drone to jack into the door controls.
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One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art makes a compelling case for why we should be looking at the art of the everyday and why it is remarkable.
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Highlights of this year include bioluminescent termite mounds, hoards of giant spider crabs, a juvenile gorilla lounging on the forest floor—and an absolutely heartbreaking image of a poached black rhino.
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There were luxurious termite queens in Kenya, palm weevil larvae in Uganda and Peru, and mortally venomous giant hornets in Japan, many of which are already nutritional and gastronomic heavy-hitters.
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The museum's curators had to crowdfund repairs to termite damage in one of the most popular exhibit halls, which contained the skeleton of a humpback whale and bones from the dinosaur Maxakalisaurus.
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By pumping propane gas down termite mounds, he was able to show that they function as lungs, not as chimneys that allow hot air to escape, which had been the previous assumption.
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Some termite species partly outsource their digestion through the practice of fungiculture—the farming of a grass-eating fungus, which they store, tend, and feed in an elaborate garden maze below the mound.
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It's the first scene that steals the show: you have to get a jar of honey on the wooden frame, where Obama is hanging, so that a blue termite can help him escape.
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"Bugs," an entertaining and eye-opening documentary from Andreas Johnsen, will send moviegoers out with a feeling of culinary adventurousness, eager to sample well-prepared escamoles (ant larvae) or termite queen with mango.
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Improvements include a new HVAC system, complete rewiring and new pipes and plumbing fixtures, 217 percent new drywall added to the existing plaster, fresh paint inside and out, and termite and beetle treatment.
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As reported in Science News, this reclassification, in which the longstanding termite order was obliterated and merged with the cockroach group, became official on February 15, 2018, following a vote by ESA board members.
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The ants attack termite nests as often as four times a day, marching in columns stretching up to 164 feet away from the nest, or about as long as the Niagara Falls is tall.
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As Messer spotted the insect in the Indonesian islands, he made note of its behaviors, including its tendency to build nests inside termite mounds, before it had officially disappeared yet again, the outlet said.
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A termite colony, which may contain a million bugs, has about the same metabolic rate as a nine-hundred-pound cow, and, like cows (and humans), termites breathe in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide.
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At a recent hearing, for example, senators heard testimony from military spouses who described rampant black mold, termite infestations, mice, rats, asbestos and lead paint with housing providers failing to make the housing habitable.
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For the photographer Randi Malkin Steinberger, who moved to Southern California in the 1990s, this temperament located itself in the ubiquitous, incongruously cheerful fumigation tents that cover unlucky houses fostering dry-wood termite infestations.
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Late last year,, after a termite attack shuttered a room hosting the bones of the Maxakalisaurus dinosaur, the National Museum was forced to turn to a crowdfunding site to seek funds for reopening the exhibit.
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From A Potential Craigslist Creep Ended Up Being My Bakery's Angel Investor My Road to Bakery Success Was Paved With Rotten Meat and Termite Wings Chef's Night Out: Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin of Ovenly
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To create a loft space and an outdoor terrace on the 57-foot-wide plot, Fúster tore out the termite-infested roof beams of the 1940s railroad house and replaced them with salvaged lapacho wood.
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Termite mounds rise from the ground like nobbled alien gravestones, and brush fires often burn along the side of the road, usually as purposeful back-burning to keep the threat of deadly bushfires at bay.
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The houses in our price range were small and plain, and we were beginning to realize that the rambling Victorians of my dreams — and in our budget — either had crumbling foundations or termite-infested frames.
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According to lead author Nobuaki Mizumoto, an insect ecologist based at Kyoto University, the ultimate strategy for the males seems to be methodically devastating any male-female termite couples unlucky enough to be in their way.
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Each termite is presumed to be governed by a set of simple rules, which dictate particular actions—crawl, turn, dig, stack a mud ball—in response to specific triggers from the environment or from other termites.
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In 2014, an issue of Science featured, on its cover, a piece on TERMES , a termite-inspired robot created by the computer scientist Radhika Nagpal and her team at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
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In an earlier test shoot, for [a movie that never got made, based on the novel] Brother Termite, when aliens were arriving, we had an actor perform with an umbrella rig around his head—12 cameras—everywhere.
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In " Civilization and Its Discontents ," Freud presented the termite mound as an example of the perfect sublimation of the individual will to the demands of the group—a sublimation that, he said, would continue to elude mankind.
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It's that Manny Farber idea of "termite art" that, on the one hand, hews to formal considerations, works within a genre or a set of rules; but on the other, constantly burns through them and creates chaos.
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The artists behind the sculpture are local couple Danny and Amanda Fitzgerald, who decided to get crafty after Danny noticed the termite mounds in the area bore a strong similarity to the Internet's most famous clump of poo.
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Termite Tales Amia Srinivasan's discussion of termites and the book "Underbug," by Lisa Margonelli, took me back to my student days at the University of Chicago, when I first encountered the notion of "superorganisms" ("Busy Bodies," September 17th).
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In 2007, Nature published a metagenomic analysis of gut microbes from a Costa Rican termite; puzzle-piecing together fifty-four million base pairs of DNA, researchers identified more than a thousand genes that might be for digesting wood.
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The statement shared by Sarah Lloyd Stifler, a MOCA spokeswoman, said Ms. Molesworth will continue to work with the museum on her upcoming exhibition, "One Day at A Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art," scheduled for October 2018.
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"Margonelli's masterly book is a timely, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be human, as much as what it means to be termite, and a penetrating look at the moral challenges of our ongoing technological revolution."
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If humans can crack the code to termite digestion, the U.S. could turn the stuff into nearly a hundred billion gallons of biofuel a year—what's sometimes called "grassoline"—and thereby reduce automobile emissions by eighty-six per cent.
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The tiny beetles are everywhere, but most interestingly, in ant and termite colonies, where they evolved to live as social parasites, mimicking the ants in body shape and producing chemicals that in some cases even convince the ants to feed them.
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With its tightly interlocking scales glistening against the torch light, it looks prehistoric, but with its little ears and long nose and tongue that it uses to find one ant and termite mound after the other, it also looks harmless.
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As described in a new paper published today in Current Biology, the regularly spaced termite mounds date back nearly 4,000 years and cover an astounding 230,000 square kilometers (88,800 square miles) of dry tropical forest in a relatively undisturbed region of northeastern Brazil.
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Her major exhibitions include: One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art; Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957; Dance/Draw; This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s; Part Object Part Sculpture; and Work Ethic.
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Phillips's fourth book unfolds in the 1950s in Korea and West Virginia, where a teenage girl named Lark cares for her half brother, Termite, who can't walk or speak, after their mother abandons them and their father dies while serving in Korea.
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Phillips's fourth book unfolds in the 1950s in Korea and West Virginia, where a teenage girl named Lark cares for her half brother, Termite, who can't walk or speak, after their mother abandons them and their father dies while serving in Korea.
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Dr. Nicholson, who "exhibited the bedside manner of a termite inspector," sends Eichenwald for a series of diagnostic tests, including a CT scan and an EEG, which result in a diagnosis of epilepsy (although he wrongly characterizes the seizures as petit mal).
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Last month, Bolt and his colleagues were on a miserable slog through the rain on an Indonesian Island That Shall Not Be Named, searching for termite mounds in trees, the last place a scientist spotted the superlative species of bee nearly 40 years ago.
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As architects and builders seek new and improved ways to cool buildings without using more energy in a warming world, a study of another type of termite mound suggests that Mr. Pearce won't be the last human to take design tips from these cockroach cousins.
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Enthroned on a termite mound in the courtyard, under the "parasol" of a tall coffee tree, Stefania presides over family matters and, on Sundays, a "genuine Parliament" of pipe-smoking wives, whose duties include matchmaking sessions where marriageable young women audition for Stefania's endorsement.
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If that's you and, heaven forbid, your crush is not a fan of watching people house hunt and squabble over paint colors and the need for a giant living room in which to entertain, drop them like you'd drop a termite-infested three-bedroom fixer upper.
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New Orleans Trucks and planes: The city's Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board has an annual budget of $2311 million to control pest populations, and Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced this week that it will be getting an additional $21,603 to target the Yellow Fever and Asian tiger mosquitoes.
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I quickly found myself down the rabbit hole: Fringe-left politics led me toward political conspiracy memes, which were in turn only a quick jump away from "skeptical third world child" image macros about Zika being a conspiracy and "inside job" starter packs (note the "demolition squids" and "termite cut beams").
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The Australian Mastotermes darwiniensis, the oldest and one of the largest species of termite—most closely resembling the wood-eating cockroach from which termites are thought to have evolved—is reported to have performed legendary feats of chewing, including reducing a house to rubble while its owner was travelling for two weeks.
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A termite picks up a mud ball, gets some of its saliva on it, and drops it, presumably at random; other termites, triggered by the saliva scent, start stacking mud-and-saliva balls on top of the first ball, strengthening the signal; eventually, the mud balls turn into a wall or a pillar.
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I hear about these mountain towns, and I tremble for Indiera, for my community, for its houses perched on steep hillsides that could wash out from under them, and for the fragility of an economy that's been chewed apart by predators, and which, like a termite-eaten beam, is cracking under this new weight.
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In the first two years of the Trump administration, Miller, taking care not to leave a paper trail, has hacked away at America's legal immigration system using what one senior Senate staffer described to Vanity Fair as the "termite" method: letting legal immigration programs erode from neglect and in some cases intentionally pulverizing them.
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She embeds herself with microbial biologists looking to the termite's gut for clues about how to process wood into ethanol and solve the world's fuel problems; roboticists trying to decipher the simple algorithm that allows the termite to build the equivalent of a skyscraper without a complex brain to guide it; and ecologists trying to harness the termite's eco-engineering powers to regenerate land devastated by mining.
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He has written a cubist biography of Flaubert; a history of the world "in 10 ½ chapters" (narrated, in part, by a termite); love stories and crime fiction (published under a pseudonym); essay collections on cooking; a reckoning with his own mortality; linked novels told from rotating points of view; and a memoir of his wife's death, by way of a history of aerial photography.
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