Sentence examples for sand termite from inspiring English sources

That was the sand termite".

And it was the type of animal originally suspected by Tschinkel; a termite, specifically the sand termite Psammotermes allocerus.

Using a process of elimination, Juergens saw that only one species was nearly always present at the fairy circles he visited: the sand termite.

New research posits that the reddish barren spots, known as fairy circles, that dot a narrow belt of African desert could be the work of industrious sand termites.

New research may now have yielded a more credible explanation for the fairy circles as examples of natural ecosystem engineering by a particular species of sand termites, Psammotermes allocerus.

"There was a high correlation of sand termites in fairy circles but that is not evidence that they are causal".

Juergens believes that in their tunneling, sand termites damage plant roots and feed on them, slowly forming fairy circles in the process.

Juergens found sand termites or their burrows at the vast majority of fairy circles that he investigated, he reports online today in Science.

Vivienne Uys, a termite taxonomist at the Agricultural Research Council in Pretoria, says that Juergens's findings on the biology of sand termites are consistent with what scientists know about the species.

According to the psycholinguist Stephen Levinson, this has given them an almost superhuman capacity to orient themselves, night or day, using both relatively commonplace cues, such as sun and seasonal winds, and more specialized ones, such as the appearance of sand dunes and termite mounds.

After centuries of exposure to the harsh desert climate, abrasive sands and hungry termites, many of the manuscripts are badly damaged.