Termites are often dismissed as nothing but home-destroying pests, less charismatic than bees, ants or even spiders.
In fact, termites have been doing incredible things since the time of dinosaurs, maintaining complex societies with divisions of labour, farming fungus and building cathedrals that circulate air the way human lungs do. Now, add "overthrowing the patriarchy" to that list.
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