Pumpkin termites, and other mundane details pertaining to food.

This was the dirt-facing surface of a pumpkin that grew from one of our triffid-like garden dominating pumpkin vines. I could see that it was already compromised by some other pumpkin grazer on the top side, and was starting to rot. I was quite surprised to see termites (members of our one New England species, the eastern subterranean termite) burrowing in. Seems kind of lazy for an animal specially adapted to eat wood cellulose to take on pumpkin flesh, but who am I to criticize a creature for taking the easy route?

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