Termites Termites are one of the most costly pests in the United States. What is worse, the Southeast has some of the highest termite pressure in the country.
Termites are scavengers of dead wood.
In fact, you probably wont have to go far to find some of your wood-eating neighbors. Most people have termite colonies living nearby. You can probably find some of your wood-eating neighbors in a rotten stump, a fallen tree, or even a stack of firewood. The presence of termites in the yard does not mean that there are termites in your house, but it does show that they are in the area. A majority of the damage done by termites in Georgia is caused by subterranean termites.