How much damage did those two termites do to Noah's Ark?

Enough damage to make it so no evidence of the Ark could be found.

Okay.. So. Termites...

Have WAY more than your standard two sexes.

Lesse..We got:

Workers: Blind, needed to keep the food cycle moving. Maybe 500 of em.

Soldiers: We can probably skip solders, since god is watching out for us for the next 40 days. Also we can Skip Alates and therefor de-alates, they won't be needed until the whole Ararat thing goes down.

So for reproductives we need

Queen

King

a few Neotenics to move the eggs around and monitor the Queen's pheromone levels.

So given that Noah had his entomology together and managed to get a functioning termite colony on board. You got 1000 eggs a day, 40 days. Call it an average of 15 thousand termites working the whole run...

A normal colony (about 60k individuals) will eat only about a fifth of an ounce of wood in a day. So doing the math, the whole termite colony will actually only consume about 2 ounces of wood over the whole trip. So what is that? A little nick in the floorboards.. BUT. We got 2600 (give or take) known species of termite.. Sooo.

Actually.. interestingly This one does work out. You could keep a minimal reproductive colony of all the known species of termites in the world going on a boat for 40 days... Cost you about 300 pounds of wood chips... Weird. You COULD actually do it. Huh.. wadatyaknow...

Oh.. Whoops. 7 months on the boat.. Okay... You need 3 and a half tons of wood to do the whole termite thing.. Yeah.. That's a pretty nasty ding in the woodwork.

I am more worried about how they breathed since the flood apparently covered the tallest Mt. Do you know how high that is? The air is thinner and colder up there. But I suppose they had branches and such to feed them. If I had to take a wild guess. I won't even go into a boat not even half the size of the Titanic holding all those animals.

And God looked upon the waters and the arc was not found. Then God saw 2 termites on a sliver of wood floating and asked if they have seen the arc. The termites turned their eyes to heaven and exclaimed " I can't believe we ate the whole thing."

Irrelevant compared to damage the ark caused itself by falling apart since it would have to be too big to stay stable and not break apart. But since this is just a fairy tale it doesn't matter anyway. I can't believe we have high school graduates that take this story seriously.

God informed Noah to assemble 2 of the comparable type. bugs that socially cohabitate which contain termites or ants or bees choose the completed colony to stay to tell the story. there are thousands of categories of insect all world extensive and being able to looking all varieties is impossible. ultimately, are you able to perceive a male vs woman? the two ought to Noah.

Nice weather we're having.

Lol, good one, but I don't think the ark is a story we are supposed to take literally.

We have got to start issuing warnings for some questions in this section. Seriously, I was taking a drink of water, and I laughed so hard I almost choked.

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Insect damage was the least of their concerns. Can you imagine how much waste 60,000+ mammals eliminated over a years time? What did they do with the waste considering they were sealed in? Can you imagine the smell?