Thread: What is this? fly/bug?

Hi guys, anybody know what these things are? Working on the report from this afternoons inspection.
Thanks for the help, Markus
I added the 2nd picture because the 1st one was too small.

Based solely on the few which are turned to see the side of them, I'm going to go with ants as the waist is too thin for termites.

Originally Posted by Jerry Peck

Based solely on the few which are turned to see the side of them, I'm going to go with ants as the waist is too thin for termites.

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Ditto.

Ants have 3 distinct body sections Head, Middle and rear.

Termites have 2.
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Harley gas tanks with heads and tails. Ants.

Thanks for the replies and the great illustration Billy.
Please take a look at the close up I managed to figure out how to make. They seem to look like termites to me based on the comparison.
What do you guys think?

Still look like ants. The three at the top left corner have "narrow waists".
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Originally Posted by Markus Keller

Thanks for the replies and the great illustration Billy.
Please take a look at the close up I managed to figure out how to make. They seem to look like termites to me based on the comparison.
What do you guys think?

Ants.

No way can those little buggers shove a tree trunk down through the tiny little hourglass waist.