Termites live in huge colonies with a queen who lays all of the eggs, soldiers with large jaws and long heads and blind, sexless workers. Just before the wet season in summer, some workers become winged adults with the ability to breed. These leave the nest, often after rain in huge swarms that often congregate around lights at night. These huge termite emergences are coordinated – all colonies of the same species in an area release their winged males and females together, and these mate with an individual of the opposite sex from another colony to prevent inbreeding. The winged adults shed their wings and some of them mate, and then create new colonies. However, most of the winged adults don’t make it – termites are a rich source of protein and fat and are eaten by many mammals, birds, reptiles and invertebrates such a scorpions, spiders and predatory beetles. This enormous night-time emergence of huge, inch-long flying termites occurred at the Limpopo-Lipadi Game and Wilderness Reserve in Botswana on a mild November night after rain. The next morning there were hardly any termites left – just thousands of their shed wings piled deep against the bottom of the steps.