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  • Magnetic termite mounds (Amitermes laurensis), aligned to avoid the intense heat of the summer sun. Queensland, Australia.
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  • Scarcely larger than your thumb, the Buff-faced Pygmy Parrot (Micropsitta pusio) is the world’s smallest parrot. Here, a mated pair peer out from their nest hole that they have excavated in an arboreal termite mound within the lowland rainforest of western New Guinea. Papua, Indonesia.
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  • Soldiers termites (Longipeditermes longipes) position themselves aside a column of workers, ready for defense.  They are able to squirt a noxious secretion from the snout-like projection on their head, which serves as an effective chemical deterrent for ants and other predators. Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
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  • Usambiro Barbet (Trachyphonus darnaudii usambiro), carrying termites back to nest. Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
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  • Terrmite mounds in Karijini National Park, Western Australia.
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  • Often mistaken for a trail of marauding ants, the lichen-feeding Processional Termites (Hospitalitermes spp.) are quite unlike most of their kin not only in the fact that they don't eat wood, but they also forage in the open, often during daylight. Their wide columns of workers can form an impressive sight as they flow like a stream over a hundred meters in the Bornean rainforest, returning with balls of lichen they have scraped from the bark of branches high in the canopy. How can they afford to venture out in the open whereas most other termites are furtive creatures of darkness and secrecy? The answer lies with their defense: they devote as much as 30% of their ranks to soldiers, which are equipped with chemical-squirting nozzles on their heads to repel ants, their prime enemy. Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
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  • A column of worker termites transport portions of masticated leaves back to the colony.  This species (Longipeditermes longipes) plays an important role in the recycling of leaf litter on the rainforest floor. Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
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  • Nasutiform termite solders (Hospitalitermes nigriantennalis) defend a column of workers with chemical weaponry, each is capable of squirting a noxious fluid from the gland on its head. Batang Ai National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
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  • Bird Dropping Crab Spider (Phrynarachne decipiens) preying on cockroach (Ectobiidae). Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo).
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  • Giant Cockroach (Blaberus giganteus). Yasuní National Park, Ecuador.
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  • In one of the most ancient instances of monoculture, Macrotermes termites cultivate gardens of Termitomyces fungus as a form of external digestion, enabling the break down plant lignin for their consumption. Here, soldiers and nymphs of M. gilvus attend their fungus comb, found deep within their subterranean nest. Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
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  • Terrmite mounds in Karijini National Park, Western Australia.
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  • Schedorhinotermes sp. Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
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  • Pill cockroach (Perisphaerus sp.), female. Bako National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
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  • A cockroach (Allacta sp.) attending to a Cixiid planthopper (Singabenna praestans), waiting for honeydew secretions. Bako National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
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  • In one of the most ancient instances of monoculture, Macrotermes termites cultivate gardens of Termitomyces fungus as a form of external digestion, enabling the break down plant lignin for their consumption. Here, soldiers and nymphs of M. gilvus attend their fungus comb, found deep within their subterranean nest. Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
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