• New level of NOPE: Researchers Discover Termites That Become Blue Toxic Bombs
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[img]http://blogs.discovery.com/.a/6a00d8341bf67c53ef017743a4e32a970d-800wi[/img] [quote] As insects age, their bodies show wear and tear just like the rest of us. For those critters that use their mandibles for nearly everything, this can lead to them being less effective and contributing less and less to their societies. Researchers have discovered a particular species of termite that becomes more toxic and prone to exploding in defense as they grow older. The researchers were already working with a species of termite known to explode on contact with enemy termites. Whenever they were confronted with termites outside their own species, they’d explode and send sticky goo everywhere in a defense attempt. Turns out, this goo was toxic. Some of those more prone to explosion appeared to have blue hues just beneath the cuticle. These critters, they found, would go off with the slightest provocation. After some digging — no pun intended — it was found that the color of that ring correlates to the amount of wear that the termite’s mandible has seen. As in, the older a termite gets, the more poisonous it becomes. The blue goop is also saturated with a copper-binding protein that explains the color. It seems that exploding is just about all they’re good for after a certain amount of time has passed.[/quote] [url]http://www.geekosystem.com/termites-toxic-bombs/[/url] Make houses entirely out of metals
Get me off this planet now.
So... snarks?
All this did was give me those itchy feelings all over like something is crawling all over me. So horrible.
Majors (Soldiers) of [i]Globitermes sulphureus[/i] are able to burst a gland in their bodies in order to entangle threats in a sticky, poisonous fluid, although it kills the Termite in the process. This sounds a bit similar to that. Nothing for a Human to worry about though. Termites and other social insects never cease to interest me.
its ok we dont have enough vespene gas
Give it a few thousand of years to evolve... [img]http://images.wikia.com/halflifex/images/c/cd/Antlion_Worker.jpg[/img]
[IMG]http://legacy.the-junkyard.net/images/characters/halo/Flood_Carrier.jpg[/IMG]
So this is it huh, termite colonies are breeding suicide bombers.
[QUOTE=VGS_Devs;36980389][IMG]http://legacy.the-junkyard.net/images/characters/halo/Flood_Carrier.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Nah I was thinking more [img]http://images.wikia.com/starcraft/images/a/a3/Baneling_SC2_Cncpt1.jpg[/img]
suicide bombites
Terrormites
Kamikamites
whatthechristmites
I live in a fucking old wood house, THANKS A FUCKING LOT
Yep, they sound like tiny Banelings.
Going out with a bang, I like these bugs
[QUOTE=Liem;36983665]I live in a fucking old wood house, THANKS A FUCKING LOT[/QUOTE] hey, if worst comes to worst and your house gets totally infested with little home-wrecking suicide bombers the size of a thumbtack, you could always just send in a load of African driver ants. they'd clear the suicidal little fuckers up, no problem.
[QUOTE=Timebomb575;36980205]Give it a few thousand of years to evolve... [img]http://images.wikia.com/halflifex/images/c/cd/Antlion_Worker.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] "Neurotoxin levels detected"
Banelings!
what if you bit into one of those things would pop like a blue raspberry gusher with legs
Mother Nature you sick bitch.
I require a video of this!
Kill them all with fire. Damn nature, you scary! :v:
I wish us humans had exploding old men. Darn youngsters would learn to respect them again.
[QUOTE=littlefoot;36985383]I wish us humans had exploding old men. Darn youngsters would learn to respect them again.[/QUOTE] If there were some toxin that would only be a danger when it lands on a person in which it'd only release when a threshold of stupidity on said person somehow, and would only be a harmless mess to the smarter ones, I'd actually be fine with this.
[QUOTE=littlefoot;36985383]I wish us humans had exploding old men. Darn youngsters would learn to respect them again.[/QUOTE] I thought the Church was handling the affairs of exploding old men and youngsters?
Jesus christ look at that fucking huge one's head
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;36980516]So this is it huh, termite colonies are breeding suicide bombers.[/QUOTE] damn fascist muslim commie termites trying to destroy our freedom
[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;36985435]I thought the Church was handling the affairs of exploding old men and youngsters?[/QUOTE] That's gross man.
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