Backed by 21 years of interdisciplinary research with entomology scientists in southeastern universities
You may not know the tenth of it –
Meet the Formosan termite –
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Formosan Termites
They arrived in the 1950’s now they infest the southeast
Double hit to sustainability
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Click to be redirected to the trainingBecause their colonies are 10 times larger
Source: The University of Florida;:
“A single individual of the Formosan subterranean termite does not consume more wood than a single native subterranean termite, however, because of its large population size, a Formosan subterranean termite colony can cause more structural damage in a shorter time.”
“A single colony of Formosan subterranean termite may contain several million termites (versus several hundred thousand termites for native subterranean termite species)”
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/termites/formosan_termite.htm
Map Sources:
1975: U.S. Department of Agriculture
1990: U.S. Department of Agriculture
2001: U.S. Department of Agriculture
(2001 is the last map published by the USDA)
2018: University of Florida
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