SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    Are these termites?
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
Are these termites? Login/Join 
in the end karma
always catches up
posted
I looked in line and I’m just not sure. If so I’ll be contacting a exterminator, any recommendations? Best course of action?










" The people shall have a right to bear arms, for the defense of themselves and the State" Art 1 Sec 32 Indiana State Constitution

YAT-YAS
 
Posts: 3751 | Location: Northwest, In | Registered: December 03, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Non-Miscreant
posted Hide Post
Sure looks like it to me. They swarm at this time of year, leaving their "nest" and looking for a new one with a new queen. Somehow they emerge through tiny cracks in foundations or the ground. It doesn't mean they came from your home or property, but it could. If you didn't have then before, you probably will now. Not all infestations mean your home will collapse.

I don't trust "experts" who have a vested interest in finding you have a problem and want to help you out at great expense. They find you have a problem and will help themselves to your billfold. Its why multiple estimates are so helpful. The world is full of crooks, so be careful.


Unhappy ammo seeker
 
Posts: 18394 | Location: Kentucky, USA | Registered: February 25, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Thank you
Very little
Picture of HRK
posted Hide Post
Looks like flying ants, the body's are different between the two as are the wings, clicking on your images makes it easy to see the body in the last picture.

Looks like an ant


 
Posts: 24664 | Location: Gunshine State | Registered: November 07, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
Picture of cparktd
posted Hide Post
I vote Ants... Termites don't have a waist.

Google “ant vs termite” images, and see comparisons.



Ha! HRK beat me to it!!



Collecting dust.
 
Posts: 4216 | Location: Middle Tennessee | Registered: February 07, 2013Reply With QuoteReport This Post
in the end karma
always catches up
posted Hide Post
Thanks guys! We decided to sell and downsize and that was the last thing I wanted to deal with at this point. I’ll still get and inspection done and I have seen a lot of ants in the yard this year.


" The people shall have a right to bear arms, for the defense of themselves and the State" Art 1 Sec 32 Indiana State Constitution

YAT-YAS
 
Posts: 3751 | Location: Northwest, In | Registered: December 03, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Shit don't
mean shit
posted Hide Post
I recently got an apple tree that was cut down for firewood. One section had a shit ton of the little bastards. I used the image HRK posted above and determined mine were ants base on the bent antennae.

Bent antennae and waist is carpenter ant. Straight antennae and no waist is termite.
 
Posts: 5835 | Location: 7400 feet in Conifer CO | Registered: November 14, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  
 

SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  The Lounge    Are these termites?

© SIGforum 2024