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Sorry, no, termites don't know crap. They don't have to shed nearly as much heat per unit of surface area and are perfectly fine in humid 35 degrees C. We've k

• presentation 3y ago
  Have you read the article? The fungus described evidently is quite temperature sensitive (though at a temperature higher than what we’d like). > Architect Mick Pearce famously based his design in the 1990s on the cooling and heating principles used in the region’s termite mounds, which serve as fungus farms for the termites. Fungus is their primary food source. > > Conditions have to be just right for the fungus to flourish. So the termites must maintain a constant temperature of 87° F in an environment where the outdoor temperatures range from 35° F at night to 104° F during the day. Biologists have long suggested that they do this by constructing a series of heating and cooling vents throughout their mounds, which can be opened and closed during the day to keep the temperature inside constant.