Termistae

Formic - related to ants

Apian - related to bees

Vespine - related to wasps

Vespoid - Resembling a wasp

Termitic - related to termites

Pismire - antiquated and/or literary name for ant

White ants - Popular misnomer for termites.

Replete - caste in honeypot ants and in winter ants which stores food in their body, specifically their abdomen, which is transparent and composed of sclerites

seta (plural setae) - essentially the hair equivalent of insects and other invertebrates.

myrmeco - prefix for something ant-related

Myrmex - Ancient Greek for ant. Also the name of a mythological Greek woman that was turned into an ant as punishment.

Blackbeetle - though it refers to two species of Australian beetle, in informal contexts it can be used to refer to the “black cockroach” or “oriental cockroach” species instead.

Hymenoptera - Taxon of ants, wasps, bees and sawflies. They are notorious for having most eusocial insect species with the notable exception of termites.

Fortune's Crown - Chapter 1 - Termistae - Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own] It took around 2 months but I published a second chapter.

I always thought, we know female termite soldiers exist because a lore book confirms it and they exist in real life, but they are never actually shown in the game a single time for some reason.

After the day of reckoning, on the Australian Outback now devoid of human or mammal at all, there awakened the ancestors of a very remarkable insect civilisation.

The cathedral termites were a species very unconventional, given their name for their mounds taller than adult humans, a characteristic which they would not lose after awakening. Their colonies both back then and now are plentiful in numbers, and physically they can be distinguished from other termites by their orangeish and blackish exoskeleton which contrasts with the usually pale and unpigmented exoskeletons of most termite species.

Their soldiers are strictly nasutes in lieu of the more common large-mandibled soldiers that many termite species have, they are easily distinguishable both for their nasus and for their pitch black heads. The substance they secrete is usually not lethal towards other bugs, but an invading force being sprayed by endless amounts of soldiers will usually be utterly incapacitated to continue fighting, allowing for an easier time taking prisoners and for more bloodless ends to wars in some occasions.

Their most notable characteristic are their mounds, they are naturally adept at architecture and seem to hold a kind of instinct to make their mounds tower over even trees on occasion, making what are likely among the most imposing and impressive structures bugkind ever has built.

Cathedral termites have kept their diet which consists largely on the spinifex that grows in the Australian outback, with an addition of fungi farms their sapience allowed them to develop taking inspiration from other termite societies and that allows them to more easily upkeep their massive populations.

Deadlanders seem to never attack their mounds, and so being granted entrance to one is craved by many outsiders to be able to live more peaceful lives. If they agree to do so or not depends on the specific colony, as their ideologies and cultures logically are not uniform and can vary to radical extents geographically.

When I write stories for this game, something I tend to do, especially for ants, is something that technically goes against what the game establishes but that I find very fun and interesting to do.

I usually make all bugs of a colony feel to varying degrees that they are family, obviously not making everyone as close to each other as Vi or Jaune or Gen and Eri but have just a level of close kinship with each other and even with the royals that non-eusocial bugs just would not have.

Lab Practicum - Chapter 1 - Termistae - Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Which character would use which English dialect in my opinion.

It always was so curious to me how the ant banker is a honeypot ant replete and no other ant in the game is.

We know the Termite Kingdom has an internet equivalent called the Termanet, but because of the fact only termites have access to it at the moment and that it doesn't seem like a very large city -though maybe it is for Bugarian standards, just not for our standards- I would reckon that the Termanet probably isn't very large.

I write Bug Fables things in this one other website and shit. Usually not about Team Snakemouth though.

Also my three earliest ones kinda suck.