. The Australian Museum magazine. Natural history. The!lead was eaten through by "White Ants" so that they could attack the wood in the roof of the Museum. The nest shown on the left was removed from a beam in 1896. Australia is very liberally endowed with representatives of the family Termitidae. which includes the ter- mites, or as they are more popularly but wrongly named "white ; This family is near the order which in- cludes such familiar insects as cock- roaches, grasshoppers, mantids, but apart from a very similar social life it has no affinities with the true a
. The Australian Museum magazine. Natural history. The!lead was eaten through by "White Ants" so that they could attack the wood in the roof of the Museum. The nest shown on the left was removed from a beam in 1896. Australia is very liberally endowed with representatives of the family Termitidae. which includes the ter- mites, or as they are more popularly but wrongly named "white ; This family is near the order which in- cludes such familiar insects as cock- roaches, grasshoppers, mantids, but apart from a very similar social life it has no affinities with the true ants. "White ants" are chiefly found in tropical and sub-tropical countries, but three species are known to occur in Southern Europe and one in America, as far north as ^Manitoba, Canada. Australia is rich in species and their nests are common through- out the country. Thousands of pounds are annuallv spent in combat- ing this insect pest, which is perhaps the worst against which we have to contend. The damage done to the roof of the Museum on the occasion of a visitation in 1896. was so ex- tensive that the entire roof had to be replaced. A remarkable feature of this invasion was the perforation of sheet-lead by the persevering insects in their efforts to reach the Pyramidal Nest of Eutermes pyriformis at Cape York. ?holo A. R. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Australian Museum; Australian Museum. Sydney, Australian Museum
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