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Benjamin Thompson
06-20-2011, 06:06 PM
Saw this at an inspection today. It looks sort of like a termite but I'm not sure. The picture sucks but it is about 1/4 inch long.
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Jeffrey L. Mathis
06-20-2011, 06:14 PM
Around here, termites a generally white. 3/16 to maybe a 1/4 inch.
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Ron Bibler
06-20-2011, 06:31 PM
Saw this at an inspection today. It looks sort of like a termite but I'm not sure. The picture sucks but it is about 1/4 inch long.
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No this is not a termite.

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Ron

Dom D'Agostino
06-20-2011, 06:55 PM
Looks like an earwig, assuming that is just 1 bug in the photo.

Benjamin Thompson
06-20-2011, 08:44 PM
Looks like an earwig, assuming that is just 1 bug in the photo.
It had a kind of forked tail but no tail pincers.

Ted Williams
06-21-2011, 07:44 AM
Looks like an earwig to me also

Isaac Q.
06-21-2011, 09:39 PM
its hard to tell from the photo, but i would say its an earwig based on pinchers. It could be a swarmer termite without the alates (wings) these are usually black in color at least in my part of Texas. did you see any clear wings laying around? no. then: Did it have pinchers in the rear for sure? if so, then 100% its an earwig.

John Kogel
06-23-2011, 07:27 PM
No, these are termites.

When they've been flying, they're brown but they don't have tails.

Bert de Haan
06-24-2011, 05:10 AM
It had a kind of forked tail but no tail pincers.Male Earwigs have curved pincers, females have smaller, straight pincers that could be described as "a kind of forked tail."

Larry Morrison
06-24-2011, 08:05 PM
Earwig very common in my region

Billy Stephens
06-24-2011, 08:21 PM
Termites.have a Head and Body ( basically 2 parts.)
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An Ant Has A Head , Round middle section and lower body ( three Parts. )
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