Amitermes Meridionalis

DID YOU KNOW?The magnetic termites' mounds are perfectly aligned to the north and south poles (magnetic)! They are able to sense the earth's magnetic filed through its magnetic tissues

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Amitermes Meridionalis

Adaptaion: Mound Building BehaviourTermites main ataptation is the great creation of its mounds.The uncommon, ambiguous mound is not just a huge mass of thin soil. The great mounds are delicate cities, woven together by a massive force. It has a wide peurpose, both housing the colony and creating a life for the termites. Without it they may already be dead, from heat and the cold-exposure.Workers build up a mound by using its mandibles to pick up material such as soil and use its saliva to 'glue' it in place onto the mound. This process takes time, which is why termites ave so much in numbers.

ClassificationClass: Insecta Order: Isoptera Family: Termitidae Genus: Amitermes Species: meridionalis Common Name: Magnetic Termite

Adaptiation:'MAGNETIC' TermitesMagnetic Termites are incredibly vulnerable to the cold- they are as white as chalk and can only withstand a narrow temperature of only around 35 degrees celsius. Even a small change will force the colony into jeopardy.So, throughout evolution, the amitermes meridionals has been able to build their mounds specially for them to be aligned with the North and South poles- they are exactly underneath the sun at midday in the spectacular alignment. It's also much to do with the silhouette created between western and eastern sides, and when at midday, no shadow is cast This allows the termites' mounds' to fulfill living temperatures that suite the termites exactly as they want it to be.

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The soldiers have the soul perpose of keeping all the magnetic termites safe. They are like palace guards, protecting the noble queen and king and the lowly workers. They are strong and significantly larger than workers, with sharp, piercing mandibles. These such adaptations help to really make their job much easier.

The royal 'family' of termites, commonly known as alate and afterwards de-alate, consist of queen, king, and others in line. The alate start off with wings, but after successful mating, their wings drop off, forming de-alate. They will be the founders of a whole new colony of termites. The male digs a small hole where the pair will seek refuge, and one the hole is safety sealed with saliva and dirt, the female begins laying eggs of workers. They will be the first generation, the first to start building a whole new mound

One cast of the mound is the workers. They do all the work, they are like labourers, builders, nurses, they run the mound. They are small, weak white creatures which require constant protection from soldiers. Because many workers help to manage the building of a colony, they have saw-toothed mandibles which allow them to carry their certain building materials.

Worker-Soldier-Reproductive

Litchfield national park, a remarkable natural phenomanon, home to many species of termiter, including magnetic termites.

Habitat and DistributionMagnetic Termites live in inland regions around Cape York and the Nothern Territory, however most of the mounds are located in the Northern territory's Litchfield national park. Living in seasonally flooded plains and low grasslands, they need to sustain comfortable life when the seasonal floods begin. Most of the regional inhabitants move into their 'underground shelters', but the magnetic termite cannot do this. Instead, they must fortify there mounds and try to strengthen gallery walls.Grasslands cover 1/4 of the earth, covered and dominated mostly with lush vegetation and grassy fields with woody plants and shrubs. They are regarded as transitional biomes- are both temperate and tropical. Yet less than 8% of these biomes are actually under consevation. But for a fact, Litchfield National park, home of the majority of magnetic termites, is protected!

Adaptations: Mounds

Magnetic Termites

DID YOU KNOW?Magnetic termites aren't actually your normal termite pet- they don't eat would. Instead, their priority food source is plant celluloce or sugar.

Mound StructureMagnetic Termite mounds are huge giants regarded as higly sophisticated 'cities' and networks that house a whole termite colony, known as the big foundation for the termites. They may reach to more than 2 metres in heght Each colony consists of thousands of termites. These mounds populate vast areas of fields in the plains and seasonal grasslands. This intricate system is the spectacle of unanimous work from the whole colony. Each termite is part of a wide community, supporting not just itself but collaborating with others.A mound's structure is made of sections each with a different rolepart for the whole mound. On the top of the intricate city lies a burial for the dead. Hundreds of dead termites are buried in chambers like these.Another section of the mound structure is the gallery or numerous numbers of them. This is of great importance. Galleries are dedicated to the storage of food and daily 'catches' all stored in large quantities. In the nurseries lie the next generation of the termites. These nurseries are lined with hundreds of eggs produced by the queen termite that have been brought there by workers. The eggs are then looked after and watched by the busy workers.The intricate system of many tunnels of ventilation and air shafts, ridges and. They behave like the lungs of the mound, enabling the colony to 'breathe' by channeling and ventilating the air throughout the network.

Life of a termite queen

Life expectancy- 20 to 25years

The physical descriptions of the magnetic termitees are adaptations as well

Physical Description and AdaptationsMagnetic termites are insects that are part of the termite family (amitermes). Every termite has a different role or caste in the colony, doing their job, being a factor of the wider termite community.