This is just the beginning of exotic ailments and diseases that will be mosquito or insect borne. In the future we will probably be seeing diseases that have typically been tropical maladies. Pesticide applications have pretty much stopped this. The current mentality about pesticides in the country will cause changes as to what or if anything is used. They mine the wood.
Termites eat the wood they infest and as a result there isn t any sawdust.
Carpenter ants live in the wood, boring out chambers to house the colonies members, and leaving large piles of sawdust on many occasions. I have a wasp nest in my attic. How many years the nest has been in the attic is impossible to say, but I can tell you that is was only active for one. Wasps don t use the same nest twice in this area. I have heard of nests in New Zealand which have been used by a colony of yellow jackets for multiple years, but who cares about New Zealand.