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i'm up at 1:23 a.m. reading about termites.

oh also, there's one napping on the windowpane now. hello, termite.

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 07:25 (twenty years ago)

STOMP THE BITCHEZ FLAT

― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 2 July 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

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― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

DIE DIE DIE EAT MY LIGHTER

― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 2 July 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

NIGHT NIGHT TERMITE

uh, GOOD MORNING TERMITE

BUENOS DIAS, TERMITO (?!?!?)

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 2 July 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

TERMITO

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― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

he left for a minute but he's back now.

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

why "he?"

don't termites have some like incredible small parasite in their stomach that eats away at them or something? did i read that once?

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 2 July 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

Termites eat cellulose taken from wood, which they then digest helped by a bacterial parasite, or partner, in their guts. The termite and this protozoa work in some symbiosis, in order to survive.
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The termite is not a parasite in the strictest sense, unless you consider the wood as its host. Its main food by far is, sugar rich cellulous, taken from wood. The workers forage for wood, and eat far more than they need themselves to survive. They then return to the colony and regurgitate the pulp to feed to others in the nest. Inside the gut of the termite there is a protozoa, hypermastigote flagellates, that break down the cellulous releasing nitrogen, sugars and proteins. The protozoa are passed on from generation to generation by the feeding of fecal-matter from adults to young termites. Also, as food is stored, fungus grows on the pulp stock and this helps break the wood down also.

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 07:53 (twenty years ago)

cool!

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 2 July 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

It is said that even though the termite is numbered in the multi-billions, it is a good thing. they have been around for up to 200 million years and no doubt had a predecessor for a few million year prior to this.
During this time many billions of trees have lived and grown and died. The termite has been totally opportunistic and not only become reliant of the wood from the dead trees, but done us a great service.

It is said that had the termite been so great in number and needed so much dead and rotting wood to eat we could be up to 20 feet deep in rotting timber around the whole planet.

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

New Orleans, in Louisiana, is the world's center of Termite destruction, The people of New Orleans spent $300 million each year, killing, spraying and avoiding termites. This plague, it is said, is only 60 years old. before that this part of Louisiana was termite free. But after World War II, armaments and other war paraphernalia were shipped home from tropical areas and in the wooden crates, like some Trojan Horse, termites laid in wait to do their Jazz.

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

TERMITO

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― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

TERMITOS DO NOT PLAY THE JAZZ!!!!

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 2 July 2005 08:26 (twenty years ago)

i'm up at 1:23 a.m. reading about termites.

oh also, there's one napping on the windowpane now. hello, termite.

if whatever you read about appears at your window, then why are you not reading about horny naked women?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 2 July 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

if whatever you read about appears at your window

you've got the chronology backwards!

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)

TERMITO

taormino?

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― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

"though unable to afford to emigrate, it was clear they longed to move to new york"

http://202.167.40.7/Cape%20York%202002/images/OTL%20Termite%20Mounds.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 July 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

I had these in my office last year. Very expensive to get rid of.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 2 July 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

haha! someone must have complained because apparently the pest control are comin' round this week.

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

ugh now there's an army of moths hovering around the nightlight outside and their hundreds of babies have found their way in here.

have i mentioned i hate bugs?

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

A flea made an appearance last night, it just jumped on me and then jumped off. I instantly became itchy all night long. I wouldn’t mind if I was a scruff bag with loads of pets, but I’m really tidy and clean. How do I get rid if the little fella?

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

may have come in attached to a pant leg.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

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