On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 23:16:26 GMT, TQuinn wrote:

...the workers can reproduce?

The piece of wood in my case is the beam that runs under my floor (which
couldn't be removed because it would've cost too much--long story), we didn't
see any new activity from the time the exterminator treated the house and we
pulled up the tiles to the time carpenter came to sister the beam and replace
the plywood floor, which was about two months.

I'll ask the exterminator if he used Termidor. I certainly hope so. -_-

No they aren't workers, they are secondary reproductives. They will
develop into the "swarmers" in the Spring. When you expose a bunch of
termites a certain percentage will be workers/nymphs another
percentage being soldiers, guarding the tubes that have to be fed by
the workers and then a percentage of the secondary repros, expecting
to be fed by the workers. If a mass of termites become isolated from
the main nest, some of the secondaries can take over as being queen
for the new colony.



Lar. (to e-mail, get rid of the BUGS!!


It is said that the early bird gets the worm,
but it is the second mouse that gets the cheese.