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This gigantic termite mound acts as a chimney which regulates air flow in an elaborate termite nest below ground. How can a bunch of tiny insects create such a large and complicated structure?

All wild bees, not just honey, are essential for good crop pollination providing up to two thirds of all pollination and they continue to disappear. Wild insect pollinators are key to maintaining biodiversity where they enable the reproduction of the majority of wild plants.

“If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”E.O. WilsonOf the 2200 species in five insect orders tracked by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, nearly half are declining.