It's a beautiful spring day and all of a sudden your house is covered with thousands of flying insects. You ask a neighbor what they are and he informs you that you have termites. In the next couple of pages we will look at termite biology and how to prevent termites from using your house as a food supply.
Termites fly in the spring.
Many different species of ants also fly in the spring. All species of ants, flying or otherwise, have a distinct pinched waist. Flying termites on the other hand have no waist whatsoever. The worker termites do all the damage, are seldom seen and resemble a small white maggot with six legs, about a quarter of an inch long. Even though they eat wood they do not live there.