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Dottie Dottie is offline
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I hope I can find my way back to this board because I need help. We discussed this before I think -- I live in Florida and had my house treated with Termador(sp?) in 2007 -- did it as a precaution because several houses around me had subterrainium termites. Recently I found a pile of dead bugs on the marble window sill in my dining room window -- everything around the window is metal. The bugs did look like very tiny termites -- yet they had the body shape of an ant. My neighbor took a sample to a friend of hers who keeps up with different bugs as part of her job (not sure what she does) and she said they were not termites -- they have the body of an ant -- but she doesn't know what they are. I cannot find out how they got inside ... except a very small hole between the marble and wall is possible. Today I found ordinary ants coming in there ... there have been stories in the paper about dry wood termites but I can't find any pictures of fully developed ones. Does anyone know -- are they shaped like sub.termites or are they more like ants? I have a call into the pest control company that treated my house but I would like to know more about what I might be dealing with before I talk to them. The treatment they used doesn't work on dry wood termites I am pretty sure ..