It’s official: Termites are just cockroaches with a fancy social life
Reordering demotes one infamous insect group to being a mere branch of an equally infamous one
![Mastotermes darwiniensis termite](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/022318_SM_termites_main.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
FUNNY COCKROACH Calling a termite (Mastotermes darwiniensis from Australia, shown) a kind of cockroach has now become perfectly correct, says the name-watch committee of an organization of U.S. insect scientists.
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