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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMH" data-source="post: 2176660" data-attributes="member: 24945">Where to start?Wasps are different from bees because of two features- Y shaped hairs on the bee used for pollen collection and the use of pollen as baby food. [Only a very small group of bees die after they sting]. Wasps use insects as baby food, after it is pulped. Think of all the treasure a giant wasp nest contains.Ant nests are like cities- the builders are ants, but there are many more species dwelling in one. External and internal parasites, predators of the adult and larval ants, commensalists that neither benefit nor harm the ants, walkingsticks that feed the ants in exchange for defending the walkingsticks' eggs (that is more complex as the eggs themselves produce the food) and social parasitical ants that replace the queen of the current owners. Giant ant nests should have as many vermin species as the DM is willing to write up.Just because Western society thinks eating insects is disgusting doesn't mean they are not a great source of food. People would produce a lot more food by replacing cows with grasshoppers. Kobolds, goblins, ogres, dwarves, some humans and elves are all prime canidates for looking at giant vermin as food. Elves raise stingless bees for honey and the bees themselves. Humans raise aphids for honeydew for both food and alchemy.Some birds nest in termite mounds for protection- the termites seal off that section of the mound and don't let anything to burrow through it. Primitive termites can be very destructive- the oldest as been known to destroy houses in weeks, attempt to eat billard balls and live in the million in their nests (in Australia).Greg Detwiller wrote a great Dragon Article (in the 170's or 180's- the ghost on the cover) on some of the abilities for insects such as poison tolerance, strength, radiation tolerance and senses.</blockquote>

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