Ever wonder what termites look like? Here's a bit of a glimpse of some old termite damage on a wood post. You can see an open tunnel on the left and part of an intact tunnel at top of picture. If this tunnel were active you would see the little critters crawling around. What you don't see is some hundred thousand more that are part of the whole colony. Even smaller colonies make up a few tens of thousand termites. That's why we do what we do.
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