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- A temporary swarm of winged insects in your home or from
the soil around
your home
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- Wood that sounds hollow when tapped
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- Mud tubes on exterior walls, wooden beams, or in crawl
spaces
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- Discarded wings from swarmers
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- Workers are approximately ¼ inch long, light-colored
and wingless; soldiers have elongated heads with mandibles;
supplementary reproductives are light-colored and wingless
or have very short, nonfunctional wings
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- Live in colonies underground, from which they build tunnels
in search of food; able to reach food above the ground level
by building mud tubes; dependent on moisture for survival
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- Eat wood and other cellulose material
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- One queen per colony, which can lay tens of thousands
of eggs in its lifetime, but most eggs are laid by supplementary
reproductives in an established colony
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- Termites cause over $2 billion in damages each year
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- Subterranean termites cause 95% of all termite damage
in North America
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- Colonies can contain up to 1 million members
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