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But if they really were intelligent, why would they use a stick to extract termites from the ground rather than a shovel?
In fact, we could go away for a million years and come back and these chimpanzees would be doing the same thing with the same sticks for the termites and the same rocks to crack open the nuts.
That's why we build space shuttles and cathedrals while the rest of the world sticks sticks into the ground to extract termites.
You know, that it's a despotic building; it wants us to feel like termites.
We built 50 units to do that as a monitoring test for the durability and moisture and termites, so on.
Or we could radically change the way we build things if we have our tiny robots work the same way that termites do, and they build these incredible eight-meter-high mounds, effectively well ventilated apartment buildings for other termites in Africa and Australia.
It's a little bit like termites, really.
For centuries, people have consumed bugs, everything from beetles to caterpillars, locusts, grasshoppers, termites, and dragonflies.
So, I went to the EPA homepage, and they were recommending studies with metarhizium species of a group of fungi that kill carpenter ants, as well as termites.
And so the industry has spent over 100 million dollars specifically on bait stations to prevent termites from eating your house.
So, you have a near-permanent solution for reinvasion of termites.
And so my house came down, I received my first patent against carpenter ants, termites and fire ants.
So if you think about mound-building termites or you think about army ants, they create incredible, complex nest structures out of mud and even out of their own bodies.
Interestingly, it accepted to feed on beef from our school kitchen, and we hunted termites around the compound for its dinner every day.
Termites, I would take half of the colony of the termites away, they would still be able to build the mound.
It is not just about the termites who have built and live in the "Castles of Clay," but also about the other animals who use the mounds.
It is a not only good for entomology classes, but also for teaching about ecology since there is so much about the interactions between the termites and other organisms and the whole ecology of all of the organisms that live in and around the mounds.
The story of the termites and their interaction with their environment is amazing.
What I saw was a movie that is food for termites.
Once human beings are categorized as parasites, germs, or noxious termites, the conclusion that they must be destroyed to defend social health is not far off.
The Politics of Business OutsourcingSeveral years ago in Delhi, I called a pest control firm to treat my apartment for termites.
Like termites, India's Hindu fascists have weakened the foundations of our constitution, parliament, and the courts - the backbone of every democracy.
Like termites, debt has a unique capacity to make short work of an economy’s foundations.
Its severity will be determined by whether the government makes difficult adjustments today or – like Japan in the 1990s – tries to wish the termites away.