Soon it will be that time of year when flying termites descend by the thousands, chew off their wings and go in search of delicious wood to munch. I took these photos 8 years ago when these fellas got caught in a huge rainstorm that lasted for hours, pinning them by their wings. I woke up to drifts of them in places like these steps up to the garage.
The SOCS prompt for May 24 is “That Time.”
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Seems to happen on full moons after rain here
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Really? I don’t remember seeing them in NSW.
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When they swarm here I have to turn off all the inside lights and put on the verandah lights. The Geckos and frogs like that
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I did that in CA, too, but they swarmed in under the closed sliding glass doors. I came in in the morning and the dining room table was covered with hundreds of chewed-off wings. I wrote a poem about it..imagining they were fairy wings and my house had been turned into a retirement home for retired fairies, required to turn in their wings. If you want I can try to find it. I mean to put it into a book.
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Love the ” retirement home for retired fairies”
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Here is the poem I mentioned that discovery of wings in: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2016/08/24/fairies/
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That was a fun read Judy, thank you. Did you make the miniatures?
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Yikes 😱
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Exactly!
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😅
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Only less so here, mostly mound termites, but the migratory type are among us.
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Reminds me of all the cicadas we had here last year. Of course they don’t chew up our homes, they’re just very noisy for a week or two. But I agree with Sadje. Yikes 😬
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Wow! That really is something.
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Awful. How long do they meander at your home? Poor you.
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