2007-06-19 10:36:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
I come from a small island and we have baseball games once or twice a week. And the big spot lights at the field are usually swarmming with flying termites (or so i was told) during the first months of summer.
They are dark brown, their wings are transparent and when they hit the lights they fall (assuming they fall to die, cause we never see them again). I dont know if this may be a subspecies only found here on our island, or maybe they aren't termites? I dont know.
2007-06-21 10:30:50 · update #1
they are not attracted to light,light will kill them. What you see is a female termite flying to find a burrow to lay eggs in to start her own colony of termites. This only happens in the Spring of the year.
2007-06-26 15:46:55 · answer #1 · answered by book writer 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The termite reproductives will swarm during the day. Maybe the lights are confusing them. When they fall, they lose their wings and look for a mate. Then they burrow underground. That is why you don't see them.
I live on an island too. Last summer a TV news item showed a sports field on Oahu being swarmed by termites at dusk.
2007-06-26 14:44:50 · answer #2 · answered by Tim_Kauai 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
actually, termites are NOT attracted to light. They live in almost total darkness. Could you be mistaking another insect for termites?
2007-06-19 17:40:10 · answer #3 · answered by randy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe they are flying ants. We have those here. I think that only the female termites have wings.
2007-06-27 13:51:07 · answer #4 · answered by peach 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
termites are blind. the only thing they're attracted to is wood. What do your bugs look like?
2007-06-19 17:42:49 · answer #5 · answered by Susan C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋