Termites
© chinapic.people.com.cnTermites feasted on a Chines woman’s cash reserves of 400,000 yuan ($65,000). So far only about $55,000 of it has been able to be verified by bank officials.
A Chinese lady is counting the cost of not keeping her cash in the bank - after termites ate through $65,000 of her savings.

The craving critters devoured 400,000 yuan - gifted from her children six months before - that she'd wrapped in a plastic bag and hidden in a wooden drawer. It was only in April, upon retreiving cash to pay a house decorator, that she saw that the tiny beasts had raided her stash.

People's Daily reports she took the money to an Agricultural Bank of China branch in Guangdong Province. Staff spent several painstaking hours scanning and verifying the bank notes, which had been nibbled and then stuck together by the termites' mucus.

They managed to verify some 340,000 yuan ($55,454). But some 60,000 yuan ($9,786) was lost. Those notes have now been sent off to a People's Bank of China branch to be inspected.