Excerpt from Termites and Termite Damage Termites are social insects (figs. 1, Just. As honey bees live in colonies, have a distinct social life, and have their work divided among a queen, drones, and workers, so do the termites live in colo nies, have a social life, and divide their work among specialized castes. Fig. 3. The attacks of the dry-wood termites (kalot'ermes) on the sapwood and heartwood of untreated poles present serious problems in various parts of the country (see fig. These attacks may extend to the cross-arms (see fig. L5a) and in some cases even the wooden insu lator pins are reduced to hollow shells as seen above. The details of their life, such as food habits, nature and location of dwellings, relation of castes and method of colony formation, differ markedly, however, from that of the honey bees. 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.