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@Oliver Schick
This is really funny--I'm afraid I don't believe for one second that this termite colony has actually been 'exterminated':
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/21/a-world-first-devon-calls-victory-in-27-year-war-on-termites
Most likely it has just expanded horizontally underground--it's thought that termite colonies in the Americas extend underground for thousands of miles, here for example:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329055574_A_vast_4000-year-old_spatial_pattern_of_termite_mounds
I think this is one of the most fascinating things on Earth.
Puny humans, exterminate, exterminate ...