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When a former pest-control officer lost his bearings in Australia’s Outback he thought he would die, until he stumbled on a termites’ nest and “got stuck in”.

Theo Rosmulder, 52, managed to survive for four days by feasting on termites and other insects before local Aborigines rescued him. “Termites don’t taste too bad,” he told reporters in the mining town of Laverton in Western Australia.

Mr Rosmulder was prospecting for gold last Friday when he got lost…Believing he would never be rescued, he said he sought out somewhere to “crawl into a hole and just call it quits”.

But the next day a chance discovery of a termite mound changed his luck…”I just hit the top of the termite nest off and got stuck into them,” he said.

If it’s alive, it has some food value. Aborigines already know that, of course.