Termites live in colonies with a King and Queen, they build their home with some amazing feats of engineering which is little understood even today. The Queen termite lives in the middle where the temperature of the nest is the most even and there are many avenues that lead off from her quarters. This makes it extremely difficult for intruders to find her exact location. Her job is to produce termite larvae, which then populates the nest and forms a ferocious fighting army around the King and Queen.
The termites can only live and survive at temperatures in the 80s and will wilt if the temperature falls below these parameters. The other problem is that there are a lot of bodies in the nest and they all have to breathe. Therefore the termites have invented an air-conditioning system that keeps the centre of the nest at a constant temperature so that the Queen can be comfortable and evens out the temperature in the rest of the nest. Termites alter the system throughout the seasons to make sure the temperature remains even and that the outside air flows into the nest.
We have no idea how termites devised this system or quite how they regulate the system but it works and they have thrived for centuries.
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