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Coby with Coby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control here today, talking about questions, we’ve been getting a lot of, what does the termite look like? And if you’re dealing with subtracting termites in the springtime in Florida, that Tampa Bay, St Pete Clearwater area, that is probably middle of January to April, 15, middle of April. And if you see a thing, then the biggest thing you’re going to notice is black flying ants and and they’re usually from dozens to 1000s or 10s of 1000s, and that, that’s the that’s a starting point there. There’s much more details on it and what you want to do, but that’s what you’re going to see. You also, if you’re digging around in a yard, you’re going to see these little things that look like maggots crawling around. Those are going to be the working cast of the termites. Could be some soldiers in there too, but those are going to work in cast. Whereas this, the flying ones are the reproductive so someone’s going to start new colonies and and go eat somebody else’s home. But if you’re doing in the, I’d say Mother’s Day, to say August 15, in and around those time periods, what you’re looking at is you’re going to see something that’s going to a light inside at and it’s going to be the evening time, 10 to 10 to 210. O’clock in one till two o’clock in the afternoon is the normal time for the for the ground terminal swan. Evening time attracted going to a light would be that now the little things flying around, and those look at flying ants as well. They’re not black in most cases, though they use a brown or a brownish color. And so that’s what you would you would see around those time time period. And if you don’t see dinner that time period, the next day, what you would see is these little wispy wings. And you walk by and you put a clean unit, almost anything, and these things kind of flutter up there. So what the exact they’re on windowsills, a lot of times around windows. Why? Because that’s the easiest access point for them. And they’re also attracted to a light. So if there’s a light shining through from the outside, over a light on any place, you can see them around those areas. So that’s the basics of that. Now, with, if you broke open any piece of wood, just as if you were working in the yard with a submarine termite, you would see these things that look like, like maggots crawling around, and so if you saw anything like that. Now, the other thing you might see, and it’s not for the subgrant termites, you would see a tube of mud, not much bigger than your pinky. Sometimes they get real big, but that’s where they start off at. And so you would see this little tube of mud. And if you saw this little tube of mud, then it would go ahead and be an indication that you were having a subtree termite infestation. Break that little piece of mud open and you would likely see crawling white termites in there on the dry wood termite side. The easiest way to tell is if you see this recurring sawdust. And I say sawdust, but it’s probably more like a coffee ground or pencil shavings. Lot of times, pencil shavings could be identified, also as a carpenter ant, but if the any, any thing like that, but, but any color. It could be a salt, pepper, it could be a blonde, it could be a purple, I mean red, it could be any color, but you clean it up and it comes back, clean it up, comes back. That would be an indication also, of too much, not so much, what they look like, but what their evidence looks like. And those would be your things. Now, if you have blisters or bubble in the paint, put your finger on it. It goes through see if there’s something going on there or not so but if you have a question about this or anything other pest problems, you just give us a call. Be happy to talk to you about this. Always remember, as long as God keeps making them, we’ll keep killing them. Have a great day.
