Carpenter Ants is a wood-eating insects (xylophagus) or materials consisting mainly of cellulose. In exceptional circumstances Wood Ants also are cannibals in the colonies, but Carpenter Ants not predators.
Among the components of wood, in addition to cellulose, hemicellulose also degraded, while lignin is not digestible although able to degrade.
Carpenter Ants ability to digest cellulose caused by the relationship sismbiosis mutualism with symbiont organisms in the intestines.
Carpenter Ants often cause severe damage to buildings and contents of the building and can endanger the occupants. Sometimes problems do not arise until a little lose one example of collapsed buildings can collapse very short age when it was hit by wood ants, damaging the interior of the building, paper archives, because the ants will eat the wood material containing cellulose (wood).
Carpenter Ants emergence of land so ideally handling of anti Carpenter Ants started from pre-construction. By the time the building has been standing / post construction was handling anti Carpenter Ants can be done according to standards recognized technical work.
Shaped like ants, but we all know her as harmful insects, "eat" the wooden house. Bookshelves, doors, tables, all of its edible. Sometimes from the outside appears "safe", but if you press, usually directly "collapse" or porous wood in your home. Being what she was making all this happen? You may have heard of him, but had never seen directly but are eager to eradicate this Wood Ant.
Insects Carpenter Ants is well known by the people of Indonesia, also known as white ants, some areas have special names, such as Ranggas (Java central / east), termites (Sumatra), Sumpiyuh, Rinyuh (West Java).
In the English language is also called the Wood Ants Termites or White Ants (white ants) but because it is damaging to the homeowners are often looking for ways to eradicate this Carpenter Ants.