Appearance
- Look very delicate
Habitat
- Live in colonies in wood or soil
Diet
- Eat wood and convert wood fiber into sugar
Characteristics
- Very social insects
- Colonies are ordered into castes (right) with large “reproductives” and smaller workers and soldiers
- Workers feed everyone and care for the queen
- Soldiers defend from aggressors, e.g. ants.
- Highly organized colonies; together, termites become efficient and extremely destructive when they attack our structures
- Mistaken for “white ants” or “flying ants” while swarming
- Colony does massive damage to any building made of wood
- Frequently destroy wood from the inside out; internally damaged wood can appear perfectly normal
Contact Us
Contact us for help with a problem with Subterranean Termites. You may also call either our Central Coast office or our Ventura County office.