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These little bugs are highly social, living in permanent communities called castes. Termites are slender and can grow to be 14 cm long. They live outside or in your house. They are hungery animals, eating dead plant material. They eat lots, but enjoy wood the best. The little organisms living inside them help them fest.

Day, Jennifer W. What is an Insect. Wisconsin: Western Publishing Company Inc., 1976
Last updated: Aug. 31, 2000