 The termites cultivate these fungus gardens, adding more substrate as required, and removing the older parts of the comb for consumption by all members of the colony.In addition, some species feed on various types of living and dead plant material including wood, but not on decomposing vegetation; these termites have a similar microbial gut flora to other species of termite.It was hard to explore the gut microbiota of termites, but it suddenly got changed in the last decades, since the introduction of bar-code sequencing strategy.