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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Cockroaches and Termites (Blattodea) » Blattoidea » Epifamily Termitoidae - Termites » Subterranean Termites (Rhinotermitidae) » Reticulitermes » Western Subterranean Termite (Reticulitermes hesperus)
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found something looked like a nest in carpet and picked this up next to the hole. - Reticulitermes hesperus
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found something looked like a nest in carpet and picked this up next to the hole. - Reticulitermes hesperus
burbank, ca, los angeles County, California, USA
April 1, 2009
Size: 1/4 of an inch/ about 5mm
found something looked like a nest (looked like there was some dusty , moldy looking one inch growth on the carpet) in carpet and picked up this insect from next to the hole.

I also saw some even smaller crawly things in the whole. I can't tell if those smaller crawlers had captured this bug or the other way around. Or is this a baby of whatever lives in that next under the carpet.
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Contributed by proxy on 1 April, 2009 - 6:12pm
Last updated 29 April, 2009 - 12:35pm

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WOW! cool.
… Matt Edmonds, 1 April, 2009 - 8:34pm login or register to post comments

Western subterranean termite soldier...
The orange rectangular head with dark pincers (about 1/8" - 1/4" long) would suggest Reticulitermes hesperus. The smaller crawly things you mentioned would be the colony workers. This particular species does a lot of structural damage and is a major offender in California.

See reference here:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/183940
… Ross Hill, 1 April, 2009 - 6:26pm login or register to post comments

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