Termites are harmful insects, they the wood. Bookshelves, doors, desks, all it could be eaten. Sometimes, the furniture from the outside look “perfectly safe”, but if you press, usually they immediately “collapses” or porous. What creature on earth those make all this happen? You may have heard his name, but had never seen directly. The interesting thing, termites cannot live alone, termites always live in groups because that’s how termites got the “needs” to be kept alive. They build the “house” up to where he’s looking for food in the form of “corridors” long and narrow. In some areas of termites to build homes so high, they were unique luxury homes built by termites, which turned out to blind you know.
Termites and ants are one “family” of the Order Hymenoptera, but one major difference is that termites need food timber (cellulose), while ants were eating all kinds of foods, from fibers until the sugar. This is why termites are considered pests, because eating all kinds of wood, even your house and furniture made of wood. Although all types of termites eat wood, but “how to eat” they differ, there is a dining and living well nested within the timber, which makes his home there on the ground, there is only eat live wood (trees), there is a life requires plenty of water, there is also a living by “dry”, and many other kinds. On the basis of this is not all termites are pests to humans. In Indonesia there are over 200 species, and “only” 20 species which are pests of plants and wood-eating wood. However their behavior is enough to trouble us.
Some ways to be “controlled” against “army of termites” are:
• Get rid of the remnants of unused wood piles, dead trees, roots, around the house, because it is a place suitable for nesting termites.
• If you make a house out of wood, as much as possible avoid contact with the wood parts (although termites can still make a “hallway” to the food, but at least you’ll know where it came termites).
• Use wood that “anti-termites” like teak, or wood that superbly “coated” material termite
• Building a foundation of “immune” termite attack, by mixing it with anti-termite material (many are sold in the store building)
• Contacting termite control services, which has a lot of this termite pest control methods.
However termite is actually one of the creatures that help process the natural cycle. Unlike other living beings (including humans), termites have the ability to “digest” the cellulose. But because humans also need a timber as one proponent of life, then what happens is that termites and humans each other “scramble”.