A termite queen can lay 30,000 eggs a day
Talk about an absolutely toxic work-life balance. The termite queen is a massive, pulsing egg-factory that exists solely to populate an entire colony single-handedly. She can pump out a new egg every three seconds, non-stop, for half a century. It is less of a majestic royal life and more of a terrifying biological assembly line that never, ever gets a lunch break.

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