Since 1978 and Riverside County since 1989 with Quality Pest Elimination and Service. Drywood termite swarmers are dark brown with smoky black wings that have black veins. Nymphs are creamy white with yellow-brown heads.
Soldiers have large rectangular, red-brown heads with massive jaws.
Found mainly in the southern U.S. including the Southwest, drywood colonies are usually connoted by piles of grooved fecal pellets that collect below holes. Larger than native subterraneans, winged Formosan reproductives are pale-yellow with long, hairy wings. Soldiers have an oval head with massive jaws that cross at the tips. Found primarily in Gulf Coast states, these insects rival native species in tunnel building and wood destruction. The soldiers are also wingless and have white bodies and large, rectangular, yellow-brown heads with large jaws.