‘(WHITE ANTS’’ AS PESTS IN THE UNITED STATES. 9 
DAMAGE TO FRUIT, NUT, SHADE, AND FOREST TREES. 
Termites occasionally iniure living trees and shrubs. In Florida 
they have caused considerable damage to newly planted groves of 
orange trees, having eaten away the bark about the collar and root 
and completely girdled the trees. Similar damage by white ants has 
been recorded to other fruit trees, as apple, peach, pear, cherry, plum, 
Fia. 9.—Work of a large western white ant, Termopsis angusticollis, 
in western yellow pine. Placerville, Cal. (Original.) 
apricot, and lemon, especially in the Southern States and in Cali- 
fornia; and also to pecan, chestnut, and walnut trees. Such damage 
is more common in the new soil of recently cleared woodland contain- 
ing old decaying stumps or much humus. 
In cities and elsewhere, a great variety of shade trees are injured 
by white ants, the insects infesting the roots and the heartwood 
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