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It's difficult for bugs to gnaw on solid wood, too. Termites still cause billions in damages a year.
by Kerb_ 3y ago
It's difficult for bugs to gnaw on solid wood, too. Termites still cause billions in damages a year.
- Tagbert 3y agoAnd they took millions of years to evolve and depend on microbes living in their gut to digest the wood. They have to keep those microbes in a protected environment to allow them do do the digestion. They aren’t just digesting wood out in the open.
- Kerb_ 3y agoI can follow these goalposts. They're already in gut microbiomes. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29763555/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29763555/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32374590/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32374590/