The small creatures - Insects, Invertebrates and bugs

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Dereck Joubert: " Do a cursory Google search for termites and much of what you’ll find will be about extermination… controlling what we humans view as a pest. Unlike other social insects such as ants or bees, these tiny, mostly blind cockroach cousins tend to inspire little benevolence in us. And this seems unjustified… and very uncharitable. Because when we look to the termite with fascination and curiosity, we begin to appreciate a creature that provides an array of vital ecosystem services. Not just as food for people and wildlife, but also in traditional medicine and scientific research, in their role as recyclers and decomposers, as aerators and engineers of the soil, and even as the biological inspiration in our human endeavours to create sustainable architecture – and much more. It’s time we give termites the appreciation they deserve. "

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