Garden termite

On Thursday, I got the opportunity to see how a termite mound looked like. A service was required to destroy the garden termite mound found in one customer's garden. I've followed my supervisor and technician to go there and I just stood beside and 'watched the show' =P

The garden termites were belonged to the Macrotermes sp. My supervisor managed to find the centre of the nest and found the queen of the termite~~ Once the queen was eliminated, the colony of the termites were considered destroyed. The technician then sprayed the mound with chemical pesticide to kill the rest of the termites.


1st circle - workers
2nd circle - queen
3rd circle - soldier
4th circle on the right bottom - king



My supervisor asked me to hold the queen first @,@



The queen was preserved inside alcohol in the end =.=

PS: click on the image to have a larger view