Controlling Termites and Ants

SHAPE her like ants, but you all know him as more harmful insects, "eat" wood. Bookcases, doors, desks, all it can be eaten. Sometimes from the outside appears "safe" only, but if you press, usually immediately "collapse" alias porous. What creature on earth that make all this happen? You may have heard his name, but had never seen directly.
Insects Termites are well known by the people of Indonesia, also known as white ants, some areas have special names, such as withered (Java central / east), Anai-Anai (Sumatra), Sumpiyuh, Rinyuh (West Java). In English Termites Termites are also called, or White ants (white ants)
Termites including a group of social insects, as well as ants and bees. It is interesting that termites can not live alone, termites, always live in groups because that's how termites gain "needs" to be kept alive. They built a "home" to where he's looking for food in the form of "corridors" long and narrow. In some areas, termites build their houses so high, they were unique luxury homes built by termites that is blind you know.
Termites and ants are one "family" of the Order Hymenoptera, but one difference is that termites need food timber (cellulose), while the ants eat all kinds of foods, from fibers until the sugar. This is why termites are considered pests, because it takes 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 nest in the wood, which makes his home there on the ground, there is only eat live wood (trees), there are whose lives need plenty of water, there is also a living by "dry", and many other kinds.
On this basis that not all termites are pests to humans. In Indonesia there are more than 200 species, and "only" 20 species of which is the wood-eating pests as well as timber plants. However their behavior enough to make us trouble.
Several ways to "control" attack "army of termites" are:

    * Remove remnants of unused wood piles, dead trees, roots, around the house, because it is a place that is appropriate for termite nest.
    * If you make a house of wood, as much as possible avoid contact langung atara the timber with soil (although termites can still make a "hallway" to the food, but at least you'll know where the termites were coming).
    * Use wood that "anti-termite" such as teak, or wood that superbly "coated" anti-termite material
    * Building a foundation of "immune" termite attack, by mixing it with anti-termite material (many are sold in the shop building)
    * Contacting termite control services, which has a lot of this termite pest control methods.
However in fact termites are 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 of the backers of his life, then what happens is that termites and humans each other "scramble".