Last month, Michele Francis, an environmental scientist at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, relocated to central Connecticut only to discover that her new home showed signs of termite damage. When an exterminator suggested setting out traps, Dr. Francis demurred. “I wondered if I could persuade the termites to eat the trees around my house rather than the house itself,” she said. “I hold termites in high esteem.”
Based and Fabianpilled. Ant-based industry and computers are a crucial technology of spider society in
reverse spoiler since it's the title of the thing that the above is a spoiler for
Children of Time
and they do use ants for mining and forestry
Wildest thing is, termites are actually a social cockroach.
Yeah convergent evolution is wild