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White-ants are not "ants" at all - white-ants are ground dwelling timber eating insects originating from prehistoric cockroaches. The facinating biology of Australian white-ants White-ants will pack mud in cracks and joints in timber to prevent loss of humidity and resultant dehydration. White-ants eat through the centre of susceptible timbers leaving nothing but a thin veneer of timber and paint. White-ants need to maintain a high level of humidity and temperature (25 to 35c) in their central colony nest. The bait is readily passed to other white-ants in the central colony nest during their mutual grooming and feeding. Hi-tech baits for white-ants were recently introduced into the Australian market from the USA which have a delayed lethal effect on white-ants. The mutual feeding, constant grooming and close social habits of white-ants are used to advantage in modern white-ant control baiting systems and strategies. White-ants get moiisture from soil and decaying timber and communicate using pheromone signals. White-ants have a well ordered social system with amazing engineering capabilities and acute survival instincts. Worker white-ants feed their partly digested semi-liquid food, regurgitated from their mouth or passing from their anus, to the other white-ants, a process known as trophallaxis. Worker white-ants digest timber by the use of symbiotic protozoa in their gut. White-Ants digestive system, turns timber into a liquid food source White-ants often travel under parquetry and floor tiles to get to the wall framing timbers.
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The smallest of gaps white-ants can pass through a 2 mm crack or expansion joint eating through rubber compound between adjoining concrete (on ground)n flooring. White-Ants are highly secretive insects preferring to enter a building through areas inaccessible to inspection, such as, through in-fill patios, fire heaths, expansion joints and cracks in concrete slab (on-ground) flooring. White-Ants travel in these mud shelter tubes as protection from predators, sun-burn, dehydration and to maintain a high humidity environment which is essential for their survival. Picture shows a large mud shelter tube built by White-Ants up a a brick foundation wall in the sub-floor of a cottage. White-Ants often build such above ground nests, where moisture collects in the wall cavity, such as, from leaking pipes, shower recess or faulty guttering, etc. Picture on left has a Timber Pest inspector examining an above ground white-ant subsidiary nest inside a wall cavity. White Ants have a Central Colony - Subterranean Termites aka "White-ants" build a central colony nest from which they construct underground tunnels that radiate through the soil in about a 100 metre radius in search of cellulose timber food sources. Home insurance does NOT cover the repair costs of damage caused by white-ant infestations in a home and commercial buildings in Australia.
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White-ants occur throughout the Australian mainland, with a high incidence of attack in virtually all urban areas. Wide-spread Damage White-ants are estimated to cause more structural timber damage to homes in Australia than from fire, floods, storms and tempest, combined.
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Super-Efficient White-ants are known to destroy most of the wall and roof framing structural timbers of a home within 3 months of construction. White-Ants are highly destructive timber pests White-ant infestations * Based upon CSIRO data and Severe structural timber damage to Australian homes is on the increase due to more homes being built of materials and designs that encourage hidden termite entry and infestation. Recent APCA Industry surveys suggest about one in four of unprotected properties in Australia will be attacked by subterranean termites (white-ants) during the life of the building. Subterranean termites are also called "WHITE-ANTS" in Australia are a highly destructive timber pest, causing major structural timber damage to buildings. White-Ants Pest Control Guide to the main destructive white-ant species in Australia your pest control options and consumer protection advice. 2021 Destructive WHITE-ANTS Pest Control Guideĭestructive "White-Ants" Pest Control Guide