The troops are badly quartered at all placesin buildings either honeycombed by the white ants or threatening to fall in ruins.
I mention this particularly because books are perishable and can get eaten by white ants.
The precise fate of the third turret is unknown, but a persistent rumour holds that it was officially recorded as eaten by white ants.
It is a hard, heavy, durable timber, resistant to white ants, and is used for constructional work.
A new school was built as the old school was infested by white ants.
It appears to have fallen into a state of disrepair, due chiefly to white ants having eaten into the beams, and was declared unsafe for divine worship.
Its coloration is usually black but it can also be black and white ant even brown-gold for rare specimen.
The term is derived from the action of termites (white ants) eating the inside of wooden building foundations, often leaving no outward evidence, until the structure crumbles.
