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hunter

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2. Two, at first. A termite queen lays an egg every three seconds.
Mon Jun 10, 2019, 04:29 PM
Jun 2019
"This little male king sits next to this enormous female that can be several inches long, a ghastly thing," Moffett says. "Even an entomologist like myself, who loves all creatures equally, is pretty startled when he sees a termite queen."

Her skin is stretched and translucent, revealing a bubbling juice underneath the surface. The babies begin to tend the queen. They feed her and they clean her. She sweats an exudate that they lick off continuously. These workers carry away the eggs, stack them in little piles and tend to them until the little termites hatch. Gradually, the queen gives birth to the entire mound.

https://www.npr.org/2011/05/06/136028437/a-termite-queen-and-her-ultimate-sacrifice


The math is left as an exercise for the reader.



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