
Termites are insects. They are grouped in nests and feed on the cellulose contained in the wood. With enormous perseverance and efficiency, they pierce their objective - a tree, for example - until they leave it hollow and dead, although outwardly it seems that it is still alive. They know how to infiltrate with great discretion. They can devour a complete beam through even the concrete, without being noticed until it falls. An organization, perfectly hierarchical and divided into castes, helps them in their ends. Those who really live well are, of course, the bosses: the queens and the kings, as the scientists have called them. They are the only ones who take pleasure in the task of reproducing themselves and do not do another task for the community. The worker termites do all the work. They build and maintain the nest and the tunnels, they also clean them. They...