Underbug tells the fascinating story of the lowly termite–a bug that collectively outweighs human beings by 10 to 1 and consume $40 billion worth of valuable stuff each year.
Lisa Margonelli is an award-winning journalist and author of the national bestseller Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank. She is based in Maine.
More Resources:
- Termites Are Actually Shrunken Cockroaches and Other Things About Them You Really Don’t Want to Know
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- How Termites Shape the Natural World
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- The Insect Apocalypse Is Here - What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth?
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- Entomophagy: The Case For Eating Insects