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Common name: Termite
Scientific Name:  Varies
Order:  Isoptera

Description:Drywood termites are light yellow to black with clear to smoky gray wings, about 7/16 inch long.  Worker termites (nymphs), and are up to 3/8 inch long, wingless, white to grayish with white to yellowish-brown heads, and soldiers are similar but with large rectangular darker heads bearing well developed jaws (mandibles) used to defend the colony.

Habitat, Food Source(s), Damage: Colonies of this social insect occur in sound, dry wood.  Swarming occurs at dusk or early evening and the swarmers are attracted to lights.  The mated pair starting a colony seeks a crack and crevice in wood, such as the spaces between wood shingles.  The queen and male (king) produce and tend the first brood. Afterwards, worker termites care for the queen and male, tend the brood (eggs and immature forms), gather food, build and maintain the colony.  Termite workers eat cellulose-containing materials found in plant products, which is digested by a one-celled animal (Protozoan) living in their digestive system.  Workers share food with the other members of the colony.  Tunnels or galleries which house the colony are produced by workers in dry, cured wood are clean and free of debris.  Tunnels can run across the grain of the wood. Those reaching the wood surface end in "kick" holes, where unique fecal pellets are expelled from the colony and pile up below infested timbers.  These pellets are hard, 1/25 inch long, elongated seed-like particles with six lengthwise ridges between depressed surfaces.  Soldier termites defend the colony from intruders.  

Pest Status: Drywood termites: Termites occur in Texas coastal counties, with western spot infestations in Uvalde and San Antonio and north to Collin County, causing a great deal of concern to homeowners when discovered. Biology differs from the more common subterranean termite because it does not nest in the ground and thus requires a different, more expensive treatment approach. Termites are medically harmless.