Whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood

Usage examples of termite.

Brandenburg Concertos for my ear, but I am open to wonder whether the same events are recalled by the rhythms of insects, the long, pulsing runs of birdsong, the descants of whales, the modulated vibrations of a million locusts in migration, the tympani of gorilla breasts, termite heads, drumfish bladders.

A society of ants, bees, or termites achieves a kind of individuality at a higher level.

The carers are the workers-infertile males and females in the termites, infertile females in all other social insects.

It was trapped in what must have seemed like a huge glass cell held by a creature so gigantic that the termite could never even begin to imagine it.

Then we crawl close, morph termites, dig under the force field, and enter the termite holes in the outside of the building.

I think, judging from the termite Tobias brought us, that we are going to be mor-phing soldier termites.

At one end I sensed the termite head and useless, waving termite arms.

If I failed, I would live out the rest of my life as a mindless slave of the termite queen.

But even in my quaking fear I knew anything was better than going back down into that termite colony.

From the great cats in Africa that cold-bloodedly search out the young and weak gazelles, to the terrible wars that are fought out in anthills and termite colonies.

But I could almost have sworn that the ant was carrying the dead, dried-out husk of the termite queen.

I kill the termite queen to save myself and my friends, then I feel bad about it.

At first glance, he appears to be an ordinary, motile protozoan, remarkable chiefly for the speed and directness with which he swims from place to place, engulfing fragments of wood finely chewed by his termite host.

In the termite ecosystem, an arrangement of Byzantine complexity, he stands at the epicenter.

Deprived of antennae, any termite can become a group termite if touched frequently enough by the others.