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Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species..
Beetles fly, many ants send forth massive swarms of reproductive alate females and males, arachnids and insect predators emerge from their hidden refugia, and termite swarm.
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Refugium means Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species..
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Beetles fly, many ants send forth massive swarms of reproductive alate females and males, arachnids and insect predators emerge from their hidden refugia, and termite swarm.
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