This is a termite

Hah, of course Japanese termites are out there living irl Japanese hentai.
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.
 
Imagine getting into termites only a few years after we find a giant prehistoric unit of a soldier...

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Meet Gigantotermes rex.

I almost got an actual fully functional and dangerously erect erection there :catshivers


Glad to see there's some fan art of this manly beast online as well!

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Even one where he's fighting a hell ant.

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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!
 
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.
 
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