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The Hodotermitidae (from Greek ὁδός (hodós), travelling; Latin termes, woodworm) are a basal Old World family of termites known as the harvester termites. [1] They are distinguished by the serrated inner edge of their mandibles, and their functional compound eyes which are present in all castes. [2]
Soldier The foraging worker caste of H. mossambicus consists of two types, named "small" and "large", [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and the larger workers are characterized by very large flattened heads. [ 9 ] H. mossambicus is known to exhibit a seasonal cycle in its activities, which involves intensive diurnal winter surface foraging followed by a shift to ...
Wood affected by woodworm. Signs of woodworm usually consist of holes in the wooden item, with live infestations showing powder (faeces), known as frass, around the holes.. The size of the holes varies, but they are typically 1 to 1.5 millimetres (5 ⁄ 128 to 1 ⁄ 16 in) in diameter for the most common household species, although they can be much larger in the case of the house longhorn beet
The infraorder name Isoptera is derived from the Greek words iso (equal) and ptera (winged), which refers to the nearly equal size of the fore and hind wings. [15] " Termite" derives from the Latin and Late Latin word termes ("woodworm, white ant"), altered by the influence of Latin terere ("to rub, wear, erode") from the earlier word tarmes.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Fragment of a broomstick affected by woodworm. Woodboring beetles are commonly detected a few years after new construction. The lumber supply may have contained wood infected with beetle eggs or larvae, and since beetle life cycles can be one or more years, several years may pass before the presence of beetles becomes noticeable.
Thrips can survive the winter as adults or through egg or pupal diapause. [ 14 ] Thrips are haplodiploid with haploid males (from unfertilised eggs, as in Hymenoptera ) and diploid females capable of parthenogenesis (reproducing without fertilisation), many species using arrhenotoky , a few using thelytoky . [ 80 ]
Soldier Field (far left) and the adjacent Century of Progress World's Exposition in 1933. May 27: Soldier Field opening ceremonies of the Century of Progress Worlds Fair. James Farley (the postmaster general) officially presided over the opening ceremony. [1] [161] [162] In 1933, attendance for the stadium's annual war show was especially high. [1]