Preventing Damage By Termites Or White Ants

Author : T. E. Snyder
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527820517
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Preventing Damage by Termites Or White Ants (Classic Reprint) written by T. E. Snyder and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Preventing Damage by Termites or White Ants The nests of some species of termites 1 are in the earth and in dead and decaying wood. These species are of subterranean habit, timber and trees being attacked by the workers only through the ground. The nests of some other species,2 however, are excavated in Wood and trees by the winged forms, there being no workers and no under ground life. With the clearing of land and the consequent destruction of their natural breeding places in the dead trees, decaying stumps, and logs of the forests, termites become increasingly destructive to the woodwork and contents of buildings (figs. 3 telephone poles, fences, or any timber in contact with the ground, as well as to living vegetation, including not only fruit and shade trees, shrubs, and flowers, but also truck (fig. 10) and field crops and, in California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.