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Also I find it both hilarious and poetic that ants are viewed as the most anthropomorphic of the insects due to their social structure when cockroaches and termites are literally the closest to human behaviour and organisation as possible for an invertebrate. Ants are far more alien in their behaviour and organisation than termites who might very well have been the founding royals of monarchy on the planet. That is to say termite biology and behaviour is equally as weird and otherworldly when viewed under a microscope but ants are just cartoony evil swarm monsters in their world while termites tend to actually be more relatable in a way.

Also from a very brief glance at the study (it's midnight) it seems cockroaches were already predisposed to developing eusociality which explains why with termites this social structure evolved only once and remained dominant whereas with ants, bees and wasps it evolved multiple times and was abandoned and re-acquired just as erratically! This means that termites were not only the first to form complex societies on the planet but also one of the few to have been best suited to do so, more than even ants for that matter. Very very intriguing!

Picked a good time to get termitised :catsalute https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-04438-5

Imagine getting into termites only a few years after we find a giant prehistoric unit of a soldier... Meet Gigantotermes rex. I almost got an actual fully functional and dangerously erect erection there :catshivers https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982216000427 Glad to see there's some fan art of this manly beast online as well! Even one where he's fighting a hell ant.

Hello Mr. Roboto!

Real life hentai is happening all the time amongst poorer countries and communities, it's just not cutely drawn or served eagerly to teenagers who have never personally seen drugged out hookers quietly bleeding out in a hotel room in Paris.

I know. You're in your every right to be right. I drew nothing but worms for 3 years in high school to the point the last year a girl from class asked me to draw something on her chest (she had clothes on chill your pepper) and I drew a worm, she wasn't angry or amused... rather a weird mixture of acceptance and annoyance.

Well they all evolved from primeval wood roaches so you know, you got this.

You know what... fuck it... he didn't have to choose the word harem for this phenomenon, he most certainly did not need to use that specific wording... THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL THIS IS UNINTENTIONAL AND I DON'T CARE IF IT'S STEREOTYPING I'VE HEARD WHAT HAREM ANIME IS!

Finally got to the sex part of the book and once again I was not disappointed. Reticulitermes speratus is the most common termite in Japan. To date, we have collected more than 1,000 nests in the field to obtain reproductives from a sufficient number of natural colonies. We successfully found the royal chambers, where reproductives and young broods were protected, of 47 colonies (updated data after Matsuura et al. 2009). In nearly all cases, primary kings were continuously present (Fig. 10.5a), but primary queens had been replaced by an average of 64.4±16.1 secondary queens (Fig. 10.5b). The largest colony had 676 secondary queens but had only a single primary king (Matsuura et al. unpublished data; Fig. 10.6). This is a new record of the largest harem in nature since it exceeds the largest harem size (up to 250 females) in elephant seals (Modig 1996). These results indicate that primary kings live much longer than primary queens; replacement of the primary king is rare, whereas...

There's no such thing as perfect, just adequate. :sohard Excusez-moi???

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So is this. And this. And even these. Termites are the only insects I see being treated worse than wasps as far as abysmal reputation goes. Now the damaged caused by termites in the US is by no means something to be overlooked but the problem remains... termites are not a single...