On examining ninety-two chests of opium, part of the cargo saved from the Charlton, previously to reshipping them from Chittagong for China, thirteen were found to be full of white ants, which had almost wholly devoured the opium.
The house was in every way most satisfactory, except that it was not quite proof against the white ants.
The mud or plaster is made from earth which had been worked over by white ants.
We supposed they referred to large black ants, which often came in armies and made a raid on white ants to carry them off for food.
It includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc.
Defn: One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong.
Defn: Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants.
One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong.
And Tippoo Tib, he say to me, 'You take first step to show any man where is that ivory, and you shall be fed to white ants by my faithful people!
Time, white ants, gravity and luck had done the rest.
Before leaving he packed all his most valued books into tin-lined cases and had them soldered down, thinking they would be safe against the intrusions of white ants.
The Nambor forest is noted for its Nahor or Nagessur trees (Mesua Ferma) a handsome tree, the heart of which is a fine red wood, very hard and very heavy, and quite impervious to the attacks of white ants.
A glance showed me that the posts were nearly eaten through by white ants, and that the first high wind would level it with the ground.
But of the insects of this order the most noted are the white ants or termites (which are ants only by a misnomer).
The spirits of common folk soon turn into the nests of white ants, which serve as food for the more robust ghosts.
Having done so, he usually placed it in a nest of termites or white ants in order that the insects might pick it clean; but sometimes for the same purpose he deposited it in a creek.
They are not the soldiers or defenders of the working portion of the community, like the armed class in the termites, or white ants, for they never fight.
This exhilarating abode contained only one room, the walls of which were disfigured by large and ugly patches of mud, the work of white ants.
It lives on the ground, and feeds on termites, or white ants -- the long claws being employed to pull in pieces the solid hillocks made by the insects, and the long flexible tongue to lick them up from the crevices.
I noticed that the winged termites, or white ants, which came by hundreds to the lamps at night, when alighting on the table, often jerked off their wings by a voluntary movement.
English oak seemed like a slice of cake to white ants.
The ornamental pillars were first made of polished nibong palms; but in a few years these had to be cut away, as they were full of white ants, and hard wood substituted.
The balean attaps were as good as ever, but the strips of wood on which they hung were attacked by white ants, and had to be renewed or the shingles would have fallen through.
We afterwards had to clear the platforms away--they became full of white ants; but they looked very well at first.
On the Tanganyika plateau I have camped on ground which was as hard as adamant, and as innocent of white ants apparently as the pavement of St. Paul's; and wakened next morning to find a stout wooden box almost gnawed to pieces.
You build your house perhaps, and for a few months fancy you have pitched upon the one solitary site in the country where there are no white ants.
Grace of style it cannot claim; but neither "white ants" nor weather trouble it.
Two contrary conditions had to be considered--the hostility of white ants to buildings of wood, and the necessity for raising the floor but slightly above the level of the ground.
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