The daughter and two grandchildren of Henry Thompson Downie sought to be recognised as the property's beneficial owners, claiming they vacated the house more than 50 years ago because of a white ant infestation and weren't aware that they were entitled to the property.
Even if dishonest behavior goes undetected for a time, it will white ant your relationship––insincerity and a lack of investment in the well-being of the other person burrows into the subconscious of those at the receiving end, even through the most finely crafted lies and pretense.
Even though termites are not closely related to ants, they are sometimes referred to as white ants.
They were re-cycled as sword scabbards by followers of the Mahdi, and during the Christianization of Uganda served as containers to preserve Bibles from white ants".
So they have become scavengers, living off the land and surviving on field mice and wild fruit, white ants and black beetles.
Alexander Lee, a doctoral candidate in political science at Stanford University, estimates that white ants, the term used in India for termites, have destroyed about 10 percent of the files at the Kolkata archives.
"When I finally opened the first box, I was horrified at their deterioration, there was the vinegar syndrome [the deterioration of photographic chemicals], there were white ants, there were silverfish.
But Mr. Gombrich wrote about nearly everything that interested him, which was nearly everything, from caricatures to psychology, from Raphael and Poussin to Schubert and Saul Steinberg -- even about the behavior of white ants.
Despite micromanaging his government to a standstill white anting his own party into an empty husk where the left used to be, Kevin Rudd will always be most derided for his perceived attitude.
Gaj Singh II was an early adopter of Western-style curatorial practices, a welcome anomaly in a country so stuffed with antiquities that treasures are often carelessly left by their owners to be devoured by white ants or to rot in the dust.
Xian, the city that is home to China's famed life-size terra-cotta warriors guarding an ancient tomb is under attack by white ants gnawing their way through 17 of its 24 ancient buildings, including a mosque, pagoda and museum, The China Daily reported.
