Hi Kirk
>arsenic bait so they take it to the queen. If she is gone so is the
>whole colony of termites.
Do termites actually take the arsenic to the queen?
And do they actually eat wood? I thought they use it as a growth
medium for their fungi gardens.
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arsenic bait so they take it to the queen. If she is gone so is the whole
colony of termites.
Kirk
Mike Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Speaking of termites - any advice for a environmentally benign way to
keep them under control?
-Mike
Keith Addison wrote:
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Don't build from wood. Thats the only surefire method of keeping carpenter
ants from eating your house in the northwest. Now, unlike termites, ants
don't actually eat wood, as my grandpa delights in telling me. But they
chew it up and turn beams into little piles of sawdust, so from a practical
Mike,
For what it's worth:
Termites chew the plant matter, including wood, but it is the microbes
in their gut that digest it. Termites, like all animals, lack the enzyme
cellulase, needed to break down plant cell walls.
As I understand it, the microbes are obligate anaerobes and ar
Termites aiding global warming? They have a lot of help from the flatulant cows in California's Sam Joaquin Valley.Garth & Kim Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings,Well the thought is close, but it is much easier to hook that pipe up to a methane digester, that the human toilets feed, then
Greetings,
Well the thought is close, but it is much easier to hook that pipe up to a
methane digester, that the human toilets feed, then use the effluent to
create compost. A man by the name of Arun on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
has figured out that if we saved all the humanure in the world, we would
Maybe someone should tell Gorge W this it seems simple if we could just hook
up hoses to the rear ends of all the cattle we gas could power our
electrical generators. This would be much better than going back to the
future with nuc power.
Just a sarcastic thought.
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Most of the methane (about 1,000 millions tons a year) is made by
micro-organisms in the mud in wetlands, lakes and sea beds, and
termites and ants produce most of the rest, with cows coming next
(damn, now we're back to Terry's limerick!). In the growth-decay
cycle, something like two-thirds
termites do produce a lot of heat, it's for the queen and eggs.
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> Hi,
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> I just heard that termite produce a lot of methane. Could you use
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> Could termites have higher conversion rates?
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> Maybe termites would allow methane to be produ
