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Drywood Termites in Florida: How to Tell and Whether to Tent

Cover: a pile of drywood termite pellets against a wooden beam Photo: Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pellets from drywood termites, piled below a small hole in a wooden beam Photo: Sanjay Acharya, source, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sawdust left by carpenter ants on a baseboard Photo: Thadguidry, source, CC0
A West Indian drywood termite swarmer, Cryptotermes brevis, photographed in Hawaii Photo: Robin White, source, CC BY 4.0

Cover: a single winged termite swarmer pinned for identification Photo: NY State IPM Program at Cornell University, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Termite swarmer, part of the termite-versus-flying-ant photo pair Termite photo: Rich Sommer, source, CC BY 4.0
Formosan subterranean termite swarmers on a monitoring trap Photo: USDA ARS (public domain), source
A drywood termite swarmer (West Indian drywood termite, Cryptotermes brevis) Photo: Robin White, source, CC BY 4.0
Shed wings on an interior windowsill Photo: RCraig09, source, CC BY-SA 4.0

Cover: thousands of Formosan termite swarmers massed on and around a lit surface at night Photo: Brandon Johnson, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist
Formosan termite swarmers caught on a sticky trap Photo: USDA ARS (public domain), source
Termite swarmer, part of the termite-versus-flying-ant photo pair Termite swarmer photo: Rich Sommer, source, CC BY 4.0
A Formosan swarm at a light in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in May Photo: Brandon Johnson, source, CC BY 4.0
A Formosan termite soldier on bare wood Photo: USDA ARS (public domain), source

Cover: wood split open to show hollow chambers eaten out by termites Photo: Sphoo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Termite swarmer, part of the termite-versus-flying-ant photo pair Termite swarmer photo: Rich Sommer, source, CC BY 4.0
Mud tubes on a concrete foundation Photo: Jim Conrad (public domain), source
Wood opened to show the hollow chambers termites leave behind as they feed Photo: Sphoo, source, CC BY-SA 4.0

Cover: close-up of termite damage to the wood framing of a house Photo: CSIRO, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Termite damage to a house Photo: CSIRO, source, CC BY 3.0
Formosan termite swarmers caught on a monitoring trap Photo: USDA ARS (public domain), source

Mud tubes built by a subterranean termite colony on a concrete foundation block, Natchez, Mississippi Photo: Jim Conrad (public domain), source
Eastern subterranean termite soldiers (Reticulitermes flavipes) Photo: USDA Agricultural Research Service (public domain), source

Cover: magnified drywood termite pellets Photo: USDA Forest Service, R6 State & Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection (public domain)

Cover: a low building fully wrapped in fumigation tarps at dusk Photo: Sarah Stierch, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A building sealed under fumigation tarps in Sonoma, California Photo: Sarah Stierch, source, CC BY 4.0
A fumigation warning sign on a tent in South Carolina (cropped and blurred) Photo: Tessa Bury, source, CC BY 4.0 (cropped and blurred)

Cover: a section of wood split open to show extensive termite feeding damage Photo: Pratishkhedekar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Termite shelter tubes on a foundation Photo: Jim Conrad, source (public domain)
Termite feeding damage on a wood block Photo: Pratishkhedekar, source, CC BY-SA 4.0

Cover: Formosan subterranean termites in lab test wells used to check insecticide tolerance Photo: Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service (public domain)
Mud tubes on a foundation Photo courtesy of Jim Conrad, public domain, source
Formosan soldier and worker termites in a lab insecticide-tolerance test Photo courtesy of Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, public domain, source

Cover: close-up of wood with cubical brown rot, next to a measuring tape Photo: Mätes II., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A wood-decay fungus fruiting body Photo: Apurv013, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wood broken into small cubes by cubical brown rot Photo: Beentree, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons