Nocticola termitophila, Tonkin (Silvestri, 1946): The cockroach was found in thetermite nest.
Effects of reciprocal transfaunations on protozoa of the roach Cryptocercus and the termite Zootermopsis.
Polyphaga indica, and Temnopteryx obliquetruncata in deserted termite mounds in India.
Numerous in fragmentary debris of an abandoned termite nest on ground in the dry Liguanea Plain; a specimen was also taken under a stone in a field of short grass (Rehn and Hebard, 1927).
B) burrows into the surface of termite mounds, in banks, and in level ground.
Although we know very little of the ethology of most of the cavernicolous cockroaches, it is intriguing that three of the six known species of Nocticola are cave dwellers, two are inhabitants of termite nests (p.
Rehn and Hebard (1927) in their account of Simblerastes jamaicanus reported finding it in numbers in a termite nest.
Studies on some Amoebae from the termite Mirotermes, with notes on some other protozoa from the Termitidae.
They can also be transferred to the termite Zootermopsis where they survive only until the host molts; the reverse is also true, Zootermopsis Protozoa can survive in Cryptocercus until the cockroach molts (Nutting and Cleveland, 1954a).
Also many Neuroptera, and termite cone studding the face of the country.
An advance guard reconnoitred the country round from the summits of trees and termite cones, which alone admitted of an uninterrupted view over the thick verdant bushes that clothed the entire face of the plain.
In a termite colony there is but one king and queen, the royal couple being the true parents of the colony.
Now and then it stopped and daintily picked at a bit of termite nest.
She was waited upon as sedulously as a termite queen.
The different species of Termite are not equally industrious.
These termite skyscrapers aren't much to look at on the outside, but inside they're just fine; they have everything the most particular ant could want.
While we cannot see any of the termite skyscrapers in the United States, because we have none of the species of termites that build them, we can see a member of the termite family.
I've never happened to be in termite country, though I've heard tales about them.
They could only ascribe it to the same force that seemed able to follow them, step by step and thought by thought, though it was far away and out of sight--the ruling brain of the termite tribe.
And now they began to see termite workers bearing a new sort of burden: termite eggs, sickly looking lumps that had only too obviously been newly laid.
And now every termite in the dim, cavernous chamber began the battle dance Jim and Dennis had seen performed by the termite guard when it was confronted by the horde of ants.
The termite seems destined to remain a gruesome, marvelous, possibly deadly mystery.
Under the bulging abdomen of the termite containing the reddish acid, Jim halted as though to make a defiant last stand against the guards.
And a wise man once predicted that the termite organization, being so much more perfect a one than man's, indicated the kind of society man would at some time build up for himself.
Not only was the slimmest of hopes of escape rendered impossible while the super-termite lived to direct its subjects against them--but also they had a reckoning to collect from the thing if they could.
It continued to come steadily toward them, carried by its two faithful slaves; and the grotesquetermite soldiers, that had closed about them in a hollow square, parted to let it through.
He, too, brought down his three-foot length of bar with all the force he could muster, the sight of that swollen, hideous head atop the withered remnants of termite body lending power to his muscles.
The clashing jaws of the two termite soldiers at the door stopped for a moment.
And these bore away a constant stream of termite eggs--that dripped from the zeppelinlike, crammed belly at the rate of almost one a second.
The great, stony eyes were next bent, as though in curiosity, on the spears that had done such damage to the termite with the conical head.
I killed her legitimate consort and substituted my own candidate after having anointed him with the genuine termite smell.
He grinned: "I hope, doctor, that your termite species is neither explosive nor fissionable in any way.
The main difficulty lay not with the termite queen nor with the furtive little king of the ants themselves.
Chances were excellent that they would leave him alone amongst his termite mounds.
The libellule does nothing with the hooks which render the termite dangerous, and she loafs, while her industrious brother, also neuroptera and nothing more, builds Himalayas.
The soldier termite is extraordinary; he is not more so than the male.
All the termite customs are extraordinary, and their conic nests reach a height having a relation to them that a house five or six hundred metres high would have to us.
The termite lives almost exclusively upon wood; and the moment a tree is cut or a log sawn for any economical purpose, this insect is upon its track.
The phenomenal corpulence of the royal body in the case of the queen termite is possibly due in part to want of exercise; for once seated upon her throne, she never stirs to the end of her days.
But at the critical moment, like Goliath from the Philistines, the soldier termite advances to the fight.
Singly or in troops, this rapacious little insect, fearless in its chitinous coat of mail, charges down the tree trunk, its antennae waving defiance to the enemy and its cruel mandibles thirsting for termite blood.
The termite worker is one of the most defenseless and for those animals that prey on insects one of the most toothsome insects, and yet the termite is one of the most abundant and successfully living insect kinds in all the tropics.
Any queen termite which ran that gauntlet safely, deserved to found her colony without further molestation.
The only social insects were small twigfuls of ant and termite colonies, with from five to fifteen members.
Termite queens in the East Indies are given alive to old men for strengthening the back.
It was one of those termite cones that, according to Lieutenant Cameron's comparison, are more astonishing than the pyramids of Egypt, raised by the hands of men, because they have been built by such small insects.
Dick Sand now longed for day to return, that he might explore the surroundings of this termite village.
It had made a lake of the plain where the termite village stood.
But then," replied Cousin Benedict, "those would be ant-hills of the warlike termite or of the devouring termite.
We have the mantispe species, the raphidie, and the termite species.
If, at last, at the top, they did not yet find the outer air, it was because there was a depth of more than fifteen feet of water in the plain, and that the whole termite village had disappeared under the inundation.
As we returned we gathered round Termite and one spoke for the rest.
Yes, indeed, and in course they are," Termite consented to admit.
Termite seized it and dragged it towards the disemboweled house, which was lashed every minute by broadsides of splinters.
Termite took it, pretending to be little impressed by the honor.
While Termite was slipping away somewhere else his questioner indicated by a gesture that he did not understand.
There was no one among us who did not earnestly wish he had tried and succeeded in what Termite had just done.
These innocent amusements, like those which Termite provoked when he discoursed on militarism and the universe, did not detain me, and I gained the street.
I'm the owner of my skin, lieutenant," Termite replied, without stopping or looking round.
Gradually it came about that we of the squad used to consult Termite on any sort of subject, with a simplicity which made me smile--and sometimes even irritated me.
We stopped and drew breath again; and on the gloomy edge of this gulf some soldiers even amused themselves by inciting Termite to speak of militarism and anti-militarism.
There is a good series of the queen cells of the Termite in the British Museum, and the reader is strongly recommended to go and examine them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "termite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: insect; soldier; worker
