There’s a colonising flight from mature termite nests most years. You often see them at night around lights. They may have flown in from half a kilometre away OR they may have emerged from elevated timbers of any structure under attack. I say ‘elevated’ because they don’t fly strongly and they want all the height they can get before they launch.

Almost all die

To succeed in starting a new colony, first they need to pair up, then they need to find a food source such as wood in contact with soil and be able to excavate a cave in the soil alongside this wood. Even then they are still very much at risk of failure if the soil dries out during the summer.

So the ones you see in the house or on the verandah are not a threat but they are indication that an active and mature nest is somewhere nearby. And that nest is a real threat to your home and buildings. That’s where you might consider TermiTraps to intercept any scouting termites from the active, functioning colony wherever it happens to be nearby. Once a Trap is found and they’ve closed the hole, it is a simple matter then to put a Tuckerbag of Bait on top so they can start taking the contents back to kill the main nest.

Lastly, to confirm whether these flying insects are termites or not: termites do drop their wings soon after landing and all four wings are the same size. Ants and all other insects have fore and hind wings of different size.

Learn More: http://termitetrap.com.au/flying-termites-does-it-mean-we-have-a-problem/