termite

“It’s like a termite almost, just kind of chips away every day,” Sohn said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Wilson wonders if his particular termite art — treating street B-roll like a hidden archive of absurd humanity — has a place in the cutthroat film world of today.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Taken together, the work points toward a different style of termite control.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

The team hopes those microbial signatures could eventually form the basis of a simple diagnostic tool that helps pest professionals determine whether termite evidence is recent enough to justify treatment.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

The chief who proposed to marry my sister surely didn’t dream Father would actually hand over his whining termite!

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

But researchers at the University of California, Riverside identified a biological weakness that termites cannot hide from: they have to molt.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Drywood termites are remarkably good at disappearing into the very material they destroy.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Drywood termites molt about seven times during their lives, shedding the old exoskeleton and replacing it with a larger one.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

In 2026, researchers highlighted images and video of western drywood termites performing proctodeal trophallaxis, a feeding behavior in which one termite receives material from another termite's hindgut.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

And Odysseus took his time, turning the bow, tapping it, every inch, for borings that termites might have made while the master of the weapon was abroad.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer