This diagram is showing the typical growth of a subterranean termite nest and the areas of a building that can be attacked!

The Queen - occupies a "royal cell" with the King. She may live up to 25 years, laying many thousands of eggs annually.

 

Soldiers - With armoured heads and strong jaws, protect the colony from enemies, most commonly ants.

Winged Reproductives - are the termites you may see when they "swarm", usually is Spring signalling a well -   developed colony. After shedding their wings, reproductives pair off, burrow into the soil and begin a new colony. 

Workers - represent most of the termites in a colony. Blind and sterile, they forage for the colony's food. Most damage is caused by worker termites. 

Eggs - are cared for by the workers during a two-week incubation period before passing into nymph stage. 

Nymphs - mature into one of the four termites castes shown above. 

Supplementary Reproductives - act as replacements for the Queen if she should die. Even if the Queen is healthy, they may also produce eggs to help increase colony size.

Termite Nests....

This is a termite nest which stands at about 12 feet in the air. It may be an obvious mound or it may be concealed in the earth fill under a concrete slab floor or hearth. The nest may be at the base of a stump, pole, fence, post or tree. All likely places should therefore be examined carefully and probed to determine their soundness.  No matter what the external shape, location or covering of the nest, it's inner zones centered on the nursery always consist of concentric layers of cells with thin, fragile walls of organic matter and soil.

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