That's a beehive. That's a termite mound, a giant termite mound.

It is not unconscious like a termite mound fractal.

So if it's a cell or a termite or a bird, you just focus on the rules of interaction.

And when We decreed (Solomon's) death, they had no indication that he was dead until (they saw a termite), a crawler of the earth eating away his staff. And when he fell down, the jinn realized that had they known the unseen, they would not have continued in their humiliating punishment.

So when We sent the command of death towards him, no one revealed his death to the jinns except the termite of the earth which ate his staff and when he came to the ground, the truth about the jinns was exposed if they had known the hidden, they would not have remained in the disgraceful toil.

I remember so well, so vividly, as though it was yesterday the first time, when I was going through the vegetation, the chimpanzees were still running away from me, for the most part, although some were a little bit acclimatized and I saw this dark shape, hunched over a termite mound, and I peered with my binoculars.