Comments on: Application of fresh manure causes termite attack. Its management strategies https://timesagriculture.com/application-of-fresh-manure-causes-termite-attack-its-management-strategies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=application-of-fresh-manure-causes-termite-attack-its-management-strategies The Green is Our Future Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:56:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: K Vinod Kumar https://timesagriculture.com/application-of-fresh-manure-causes-termite-attack-its-management-strategies/#comment-351 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 18:20:21 +0000 https://www.timesagriculture.com/?p=1614#comment-351 See the picture of land around a coconut palm We can see dry branches and twigs on the left and dried leaves in the middle and right. The termites made shelters around the twigs surrounding it fully. No shelters are seen on the dry leaves. The cow dung solution is spread on the right leaves; the right appears darker. We can expect the termites to find the dry leaves on the right to be stable and build their shelters around these dry leaves soon!

]]> By: K Vinod Kumar https://timesagriculture.com/application-of-fresh-manure-causes-termite-attack-its-management-strategies/#comment-350 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 18:18:15 +0000 https://www.timesagriculture.com/?p=1614#comment-350 Termites find dead wood and dead roots easy to surround and consume; but dry leaves are thin and may be blown around or shake in the wind, so they avoid making shelters on dry leaves. Can we avoid shaking of leaves so that the termites create a shelter on and consume the dry leaves? Covering the leaves with farm yard manure is a solution. Very little soil organic matter starves the termites and they survive by eating living plant parts of crops. So you recommend mulch cover of fodder, or manure for the soil for the termites to eat.

See the picture of land around a coconut palm We can see dry branches and twigs on the left and dried leaves in the middle and right. The termites made shelters around the twigs surrounding it fully. No shelters are seen on the dry leaves. The cow dung solution is spread on the right leaves; the right appears darker. We can expect the termites to find the dry leaves on the right to be stable and build their shelters around these dry leaves soon!

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