Search results for "Termite" - New World Encyclopedia
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- of their role in food chains—converting ant and termite biomass into a form usable for top predators like lions, leopards, and pythons—but also because ...9 KB (1,488 words) - 00:41, 17 December 2022
- are large and useful for digging into termite mounds and ant hills. However ... chew. Instead, they tear open anthills or termite mounds with their powerful ...14 KB (1,993 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- Numbat is the common name for members of the marsupial species Myrmecobius fasciatus, a diurnal, termite-eating mammal characterized by a slender ...16 KB (2,462 words) - 20:23, 11 February 2023
- and claws to disrupt the very strong termite nests, add to the wonder ... strong and are used to break open ant and termite mounds in order to feed ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 07:42, 24 January 2023
- Echidna, also known as spiny anteater, is any of the egg-laying mammals comprising the Tachyglossidae family of the order Monotremata (monotremes ...11 KB (1,540 words) - 02:46, 1 October 2020
- and wood preservatives, protecting wood from termite attack. * Borates may be added to cosmetics and other personal care products to control the ...10 KB (1,587 words) - 19:37, 20 November 2023
- Centipede ("hundred legs") is the common name for any member of the arthropod class Chilopoda, comprising species with long, flattened ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 23:51, 3 December 2023
- As a general, non-taxonomic term, insectivore is a dietary category that applies to any organism feeding chiefly on insects and similar small ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 22:53, 5 February 2023
- been found in the Formosan subterranean termite, possibly as a repellent ... BBC News, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/76115.stm Termite ...13 KB (1,879 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- Cockroach is the common name for any insect in the order (or suborder) Blattodea (= Blattaria) in the superorder (or order) Dictyoptera, characterized ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 22:18, 7 January 2024
- A termite-bored didgeridoo has an irregular shape that, overall, usually increases in diameter towards the lower end. This shape means that its ...18 KB (2,678 words) - 14:27, 29 January 2024
- includes ants, bees, and some species of wasp and termite) use pheromones to coordinate the activities of the colony. Honeybees, for example, have one ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 02:59, 24 November 2022
- and hundreds of rooms. It suffered from termite and cyclone damage, but still offered an impressive scene. Many bullet holes left over from the ...10 KB (1,472 words) - 21:27, 9 February 2024
- It is now thought that they are created by a termite. ==Climate== [[Image:ConceptionBay Namibia ISS011-E-9756.jpg|thumb|250px|The dune sea of ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:13, 11 November 2022
- created features in the Park are the termite mounds. The mounds in the ... [[Image:Termite cathedral mounds in a bushfire blackened tropical ...37 KB (5,617 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- Category:Public color = lightblue | name = Fungi image = [[Image:Fungus on log.jpg|200px|Orange saprotrophic fungus]]| caption = Orange saprotrophic ...13 KB (1,974 words) - 08:09, 4 December 2023
- Galliformes is an order of chicken-like birds, characterized by stocky built, small head, strong feet, and often short bills and wings, and adult ...13 KB (1,829 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- Feliformia is one of two suborders within the order Carnivora and consists of the "cat-like" carnivores, such as the felids (true cats ...14 KB (1,947 words) - 12:58, 21 January 2023
- Mantodea is an order (or suborder) of large, terrestrial, carnivorous insects characterized by raptorial forelegs (adapted to capturing prey ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 11:08, 9 March 2023
- enlarged third digit for tearing down ant hills and termite nests. * In the whale, the forelimbs become flippers for steering and maintaining ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 16:13, 25 January 2023
