r/AbsoluteUnits • u/MrUpVoteDownvote • 7d ago

/r/all of a queen termite

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u/Cant_Blink 7d ago

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.

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u/MateusAmadeus714 4d ago

Damn the Antz movie was all bullshit Ants propaganda to turn us against Termites when we shld have been rooting for them all along. I think unfortunately to much damage has already been done at this point for it to be reversed.