Ticks with Termites

I live in Oakland, CA. Our fall weather is very mild (normal day - 60 to 75 degrees)which may explain why we have termites hatching in the fall. Yesterday, about 8 hours after receiving an inch or so of rain, the sun was out and the air warming up, when flying termites started drifting up the canyon possibly from a fallen dead tree. I wanted to make sure they were termites, so caught 2 of them and looked at them through a magnifier. Both of them had what looked to me to be ticks. In fact, each had 2 ticks on them. I don't have a camera so have no images. They were very small - the size of the period at the end of this sentence or slightly smaller. Has anyone else noticed this? Do termites have parasites or carry them? I must say, the thought of termites dropping ticks (ticking bombs?) on my head was a little unnerving.