The operations of termites can be quite remarkable to behold. On St. John, you often see trees with a dark line meandering up their trunk, from the ground to the canopy, as on this one. This is a sort of covered highway created by termites, linking their ground-based sources of forage with a bulbous lumpy nest suspended high up in the tree. The nests are often hard to spot, and the lines much easier, but if you didn't know what it was, it would be easy to mistake for some sort of parasitic vine.
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