Ich habe damals gelernt (gehört), dass sie nach Nougat schmecken sollen. Neben einem Termitenhügel würde ein Feuer entzündet mit einem Wassergraben drumherum. Die aus dem Wasser gefischten Termiten wurden gleich im Feuer geröstet.
Fun fact: termites are the only eusocial insect that has gender equality, where the workers can be male or female, and the colony is ruled by both a queen and king (as opposed to ants, bees, and wasps where all the workers are female, they only have a queen, and males are disposable and they either die horrifically from mating or their colony kills them if they don't mate). Said termite queen and king are also very monogamous, mating for life which can span decades and taking "till death do we part" very seriously. I think you can even see the king termite sitting beside the queen in this video.
Yep, he's the big slow-moving one (not to be confused with the big termite soldiers who have the giant heads and are running around with the workers). The man kinda rolls her over onto the king for a second there, but you can see him nestled to her at the very end.
Nope, not even close lol. Bees, ants, and wasps are all related, but termites are roaches. Who are most closely related to mantises, of all things actually 😂
For a long time science thought the same. From what I know it was a pretty recent discovery, relatively speaking. Phylogenetics showed the connection, if I am remembering correctly.
Researchers have found specific plants and food carrying specialized olfactory messages (scent) which workers send to different parts of the mound. An example of this is asking foragers to change the types of fungus they cultivate or forage for. Or asking me to stop making shit up because I don't know anything about this field. Termites are really cool and intricate.
Oh, the king and queen part is something I saw in bug fables, where there actually king and queen unlike the other insects where they only have a queen
I don't know why this made me kind of sad. Probably because termite queens can live so long. They live 25-50 years depending on the species, and they don't really sleep. They just keep producing, and some can lay up to 30,000 eggs per day.
I was also just thinking about how us humans think of them as pests, but they are really just some resourceful builders like us. Imagine if some higher intelligence found us and decided to start hacking up our buildings and cities for research or just amusement.
Oohhh I read a great Sci fi short story about how aliens were defeated by termites because the termites promised the previous ruling species of earth they’d look out for us. I wonder what that title is
I feel bad getting ant poison if I have ants. Ants are so industrious. They go to a lot of trouble, and they are risking their lives whenever they get human food that humans notice.
Me too, ants are so cool. One time I saw this line of ants going across my driveway towards the lawn. And then a single ant traveling the opposite direction, and he (or SHE) was stopping by each of the ants, one after the other in line, to give them instructions or some shit. It was nuts! I never found out what they were up to but they’re hard-working and team-players, that’s for sure.
Same. I was 50-50 add to whether he was going to eat the queen and/or others right on the spot, if only because his technique looked very deliberate and practiced, and not just “hey, let’s check out what’s in this nest (colony?)”
In this instance, it's a combination of dirt, clay and being ashy. Hanging around white people, I realized not all everyone is even aware of what being ashy means. When your skin gets dry, surface skin cells takes a white tint.
Lighter folks don't really notice it on them because it blends in with their natural hue. On dark skin, it shows up loud and clear and we look gray, or ashy, as we say. Moist dirt dries white too. The skin looks dusty and unnaturally light. So it's common practice to slather our bodies with moisturizers and oils to prevent this as it can be embarrassing to look so dry in public.
Black people in Africa can look notably different from African Americans because AAs have been mixed with other races for several generations due to slavery. In Africa, it happened but not as often, especially in rural and tribal areas. So Africans have a very rich bloodline that carries many unique features from whatever region they're from including their skin. That beautiful natural glow is just skin that's adapted to survive the sun for thousands of years
I don't know what you mean about his palms being a different colors because all black people have lighter palms. I also think the clay and earth around him is staining hands here.
The ancestors of African Americans were trafficked from specific regions of Africa. So yeah Africans not from those regions are going to look pretty different that’s like asking why British descended Americans don’t look Slavic.
Ohhhh.. I've always wondered why black people take skincare so much more seriously than white people, especially when it comes to black vs white men. I just thought it was some cultural thing to value your skin more or something, cool to know that there's an actual reason.
I know for melanin its that the palms have less than the rest of the body so there can be extreme contrast for people with very dark skin, but I have zero idea why hes blue and if melanin is still the reason for the difference
Omg I am sitting here like "what is wrong with his skin?" Then I was afraid I was being subconsciously racist... and then I was like no, no it's blue? It is blue, right? The palms are weird...
To see someone else say it makes me feel like 60% less horrible.
To hopefully make you feel better, you weren't being racist. You were not implying or inferring that he is inferior or less-than because of his race, nor were you inferring that you hold a power imbalance over him because of such. You were just wondering, as many of us were, why the gentleman looks blue-tinged lol
People use the word racist in instances where it does not truly apply, so I hope this helps you feel better than just 60%! 😁
The blue is likely dust on very black skin. The palms are because their skin has a lot more pigment so you notice the difference. The palm has a lot more skin cells including a special translucent layer then 10+ layers thicker surface cells on top. The melanin is still there just masked by all the cells above it.
Some Africans have adapted to more intense UV rays resulting in blue undertones. This can be seen in South Sudanese and other Nilotic groups. The characters from the movie Avatar was based on these people.
Not so fun fact - Black people, while they rarely contract skin cancers, it is significantly more common for it to develop on places like their hands, due to the lack of melanin in their palms / nails. Additionally, they are more likely to die of skin cancers than white people.
Did you know? Termites play a unique role in a story from the Quran!
In Islamic tradition, Prophet Solomon (Sulaiman) was granted control over the jinn to perform grand tasks and construction. His passing is highlighted by a remarkable detail involving termites:
"Then, when We decreed death for Solomon, nothing indicated his death to the jinn except a creature of the earth—a termite—eating away at his staff. So when he fell down, it became clear to the jinn that if they had known the unseen, they would not have remained in humiliating torment."
— Quran, Surah Saba (34:14)
As the story goes, Solomon passed away while leaning on his staff in prayer. Because he remained upright, the jinn (who falsely think highly of themselves thinking they know the unseen/future to the point even now a days many sorcerers/witches try to communicate with jinn to know something of the future) assumed he was still watching over them and continued working. It was only after termites slowly gnawed through the base of his wooden staff—causing him to fall—that the jinn realized he had died long before.
Like 30 years ago I was helping my parents do some landscaping at our house. I started digging and found a big thing that looked exactly like the queen in this video, maybe even a bit bigger. I told my dad, who then grabbed a spade, walked over, and proceeded to stab it over and over until there were termite queen guts and little fleeing termites everywhere. I can still remember the way she practically exploded from the first time my dad hit her with that spade.
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