Wood Destroying Organism / role
3 entr(ies)
Black Carpenter Ant
A large, dull-black ant that nests in moist or decaying wood, tunneling galleries to build its colony rather than eating the wood like a termite.Eastern Subterranean Termite
A soil-dwelling, wood-eating social insect that is the most widely distributed termite species in the eastern United States and a major structural pest.Western Drywood Termite
A wood-nesting termite of the western U.S. that lives entirely inside dry, sound wood — framing, furniture, dead tree limbs — without any contact with soil, betraying itself mainly by piles of tiny six-sided fecal pellets.
A large, dull-black ant that nests in moist or decaying wood, tunneling galleries to build its colony rather than eating the wood like a termite.Eastern Subterranean Termite
A soil-dwelling, wood-eating social insect that is the most widely distributed termite species in the eastern United States and a major structural pest.Western Drywood Termite
A wood-nesting termite of the western U.S. that lives entirely inside dry, sound wood — framing, furniture, dead tree limbs — without any contact with soil, betraying itself mainly by piles of tiny six-sided fecal pellets.