Terrabyte (insect)

This article is AbOUT a fictional creature; for the measurement term for data storage capacity, see Terabyte.

Terrabytes are termite-like desert insects that were created for the TV series The Future is Wild. Like termites, terrabytes are organized into castes:

• Transporters, which carry other castes to a specified area
• Gum-spitters, which do nothing else but spit sticky gum
• Biters
• Rock-borers, which use chemicals to dissolve the hard limestone under the desert to get to the underground pools below
• Water-carriers, which suck up water to water the algae that they grow.

To get this algae they have to fight Garden Worms. (Note: the terrabytes apparently cultivate algae in their mounds also, using the water-carriers to water it, and getting it sunlight from transparent panes in the top made of terrabyte saliva) Garden worms are either found vulnerably Laying around near oases, or inaccessably swimming around in the underground caves. The transporter terrabytes carry gum-spitters to the attack point and the gum-spitters freeze the worms in their tracks. Then other transporter terrabytes apprehend the worms to grab some algae to take back to their enormous nests. Underneath the nests are a series of caverns that insulate the nests. This is so the terrabytes don't get hot in the blistering hot desert.