So what's their structure and how do they work and anything that I don't know and, of course, nobody else knows or anybody else out there that's listening?

Yeah, well, similar to Hans, there's a queen and there's reproduction is only carried out by a small number of individuals in the colony and the rest have various functions.

There are soldiers with big heads and big mandibles that do uh protection uh there are you know there are different different casts that that do different have different specialized roles and it I think it varies um you know that the termites themselves are a very broad group uh with with that encompass you know a variety of different very different behaviors the important thing about these East African Southern African termites they're members of a family that is called the fungus farming termites.

And what they do is they chew up decaying or dead organic material, but that is not the primary food source.

They then kind of defecate it out and then use it as a substrate for growing fungus underground.

So they're basically farmers working on these vast, in really huge, sometimes truly enormous underground gardens of fungi that are grown on pasted together bits of comb.

It looks not really like a honeycomb, but that's roughly analogous to how it is.

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