What is "white ants"

Usage examples of "white ants".

Termites are often known as 'white ants', but they are related to cockroaches, rather than to true ants, which are related to bees and wasps.

And from a hole in that lumpy ground issued a flood of white ants as large as her foot.

It lived on the white ants, or termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high, towering nests of toughened clay, some of them thirty-five feet in height, with its mighty claws, then darting its four-foot-long tongue, coated with adhesive saliva, among the nest's startled occupants, drawing thousands in a matter of moments into its narrow, tubelike mouth.

Now, the tree was half-eaten by white ants, and was a menace to my house and safety.

Several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants.

There was a piano in one corner, its legs sitting in saucers of water to stop white ants from climbing up and eating their way through the instrument.

He lay for hours at a time on the floor of the cell, staring at minute moving things, small white ants, microscopic worms.

The termites are often called 'white ants', but that's a completely incorrect name as they aren't ants at all but quite a different species of insect.