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That reminds me of the time I watched the guy that lives across the street from me spray his hand with hair spray, light it on fire, decide it was hot, attempt to put it out, catch his shirt on fire, then have to pay *that* out with his other hand
I wonder how he explained his burned hand to his mom...
This might be odd to a lot of you but we don't have termites in the uk.
I didn't know they could fly, wtf? I thought they were like big ants that eat wood
They can only fly when they are swarming. The original colony has gotten too big so the winged ones leave to form their own colonies. Kinda like the UK used to do
It's population density and instinct. Based on our population and the space race, it's the same for us, except we have to create our own wings
Edit - LOL I just got it - well played yourself
The ones that breed fly. Maybe some heavy rain caused a nearby nest to think it’s in danger. The nest starts producing tons of breeders to keep the bloodline going. This is the result - one big termite orgy. Good news is that in a few hours they’ll all be dead.
Nah, no need to stress. It’ll just be a mating event and they’re looking for a place to build a new home. They’re very unlikely to find that in your house. They’re looking for wet wood etc first… then they’ll build a tunnel into your house and completely destroy it.
The termites have already been there for a year. This is the next generation of termites looking for a place to set up a new colony. OP could just open the window and 90% of them would voluntarily fly away. Your neighbors would be livid!
These are very common in SE Asia, they hatch in bulk and fly around light bulbs several times a year. Basically they can crawl under doors and in the small spaces in windows and damn near every house gets some inside. Most houses are made of concrete so they cant destroy them, but they can destroy wooden cabinets and doorframes and whatnot.
We close our indoor lights and put a light outside and setup one or two of those mosquito zappers that look like tennis racquets. Smells like shit but entertaining to look at
From what I've learned about chickens, if you closed the doors and set up some ladders against the wall, they'd be scrambling to get in here to eat these.
isopropyl in a spray bottle works wonders and doesn't leave a sticky residue as it just evaporates after a minute or so. If the floor is tiles I'd damp it woth clorox so whatever falls gets stuck there and maybe geneva conventioned by all the chlorine
Mixing those two things would be extremely dangerous as you’d quickly create a shit ton of chloroform which is highly toxic and doesn’t work like it does in the movies.
I had a bug infestation in a holiday rental I stayed in. I just got the detachable arm on the vacuum and sucked those bastards into the canister. Voila.
Get a pole , hook up a flashlight and a plastic bag with oil on it, termites will be attracted and then sticked to the plastic bag. Waiting for them to die and then sweep them out takes less effort though.
I love when a dumb person says some dumb shit then looks at you dumb as fuck and says some more dumb shit after commenting about how dumb the shit they said really was
I’m a pest control professional that won’t do shit. There’s a whole colony probably in your house eating away at it. I’m assuming your house is on a slab? Either way if it is or isn’t those fuckers are in there. If your house is on a slab. DO NOT SPRAY THEM. It’s easier to kill the colony if we know where they are. Damn I wish you were in my area I’d charge ya good lmao
Thank you for your advice. My house is indeed on slab and I will contract pest control service to check it
Ps: slab but with brick reinforce with steel, not concrete
No problem man. Termites are gold for pest control. There are two ways to treat it. They can use bait. They just bait the inside and put bait in your yard. Or they can do liquid. If they use liquid they will have to drill into your home it’s much more expensive and time consuming. They will pump around 10 gallons of pesticides every 10 linear feet. We use bait it’s much cheaper on everyone and it’s safer for the environment and your home, it’s also more effective. Not every pest control company can use bait though.
It’s cheaper if you don’t use a chain company as well; local will be cheaper, but they may not do a good job. So do your research
As someone who’s dealt with ALOT of contractors of all varieties, you definitely sound like you know your trade and I wanted to thank you for taking the time to chime in to help OP. Solid advice from an honest contractor that actually, truly, knows their shit is invaluable.
Thank you! That was actually very nice and I greatly appreciate it. I work hard and a lot. Me and my family own a business. Worked from the ground up. We didn’t advertise until recently. The only way our name spread was from honest work. We started advertising a couple years ago and we are by far the biggest company in our city we travel 100 miles north, south, east, and west. Hopefully one day we can even expand to multiple locations. Have a great day, that made me feel good. Thank you!
I tell people all the time to try leaving the evidence so a pest control person can investigate but it's hard to have them swarm like that and not want to clean. That said, they are probably subterranean so somewhere in the house mud tubes should be present. I've seen plenty of ti.es mud tubes as these alates come out and it's not always easy to find. With that many swarmers there is a very large and active colony close by. You don't want to just start spraying with insecticide because that will do nothing to solve the bigger problem.
They fly when it's time to mate. We get swarms every year around later April to early May. Fly in to New Orleans International Airport at the end of April and you'll see them crowed around any and every light source.
Turn the lights out. They are attracting to lights. Open a window. Damn, they usually don’t hit us until Mother’s Day. You need to have your house checked. There is probably more.
Winged, flying termites are the reproductive ones that are setting out on their own to start a new colony.
If they are doing that in your house, one thing can lead to the other.
Yeah was gonna say I lived in Thailand for some time and some seasons the flying termites were brutal. We'd close our windows but those fuckers would just crawl through the light sockets
This is a termite swarm. They are looking for a new home and ran into yours. Unfortunately for them they can’t survive in a dry environment for too long. They’ll die and drop to the floor. Just need a shop vac. If you can actually see them you may be better off than you think. It’s the ones you can’t see that are munching on your house.
Set up a box fan with a large fiberglass HVAC filter in front and allow them to get sucked in / stuck. Spray in something to kill them with, and then bag/trash the filter. This will help with the flying ones without immediately bug bombing the area.
Also, be careful to not spray anything flammable into the motor when killing the bugs. Keep the fan on while killing them or they will get free.
That's crazy. It's been some years but I was putting up some laundry in the laundry room of an apartment I was renting and I was kind of looking at the wall and it looked like something came through the wall and it really tripped me out. Lol.
It turns out it was termites and they ate through the sheetrock and then just started flying everywhere. I guess I had never seen one in person until that point so I didn't even really know what it was
It's definitely a trip, specially when you're not expecting it.
Formosan termites. They swarm here every spring. Gotta turn off all your lights and hope they are drawn to the streetlights. I won't even watch tv when they are in season. I close all the windows & blinds and sit in the dark, reading my kindle.
Just vacuum 'em up, OP. You'll be ok.
Install a bright light outside the door, turn off the inside lights and they will all goto the light out side, close the door and then turn off the outside light..
Dangle the end of a shop vac hose from the ceiling in center of the hall, turn on and place a lamp at the end of the hose and leave, closing the doors and turning off the lights. Check back in an hour.
The Hawaiian methods is to get a pool or bucket of water, add a little dish soap. Turn off all the lights and point a spot light (or flash light) into the water. The termites are attracted to light. They’ll swim to the light and get stuck in the water.
They get mating swarms like that a couple times per year in the islands. This works like a charm.
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You may want to buy some raid. Or some explosives .
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For Liberty!
This made me lauuuugh.
You all joke, but a hairspray can and a lighter, might just work some magic here!
That reminds me of the time I watched the guy that lives across the street from me spray his hand with hair spray, light it on fire, decide it was hot, attempt to put it out, catch his shirt on fire, then have to pay *that* out with his other hand I wonder how he explained his burned hand to his mom...
Thus the keyword in my statement!!!! “Might” lolol Edit: Could also burn the house down yes, but either way problem solved!!
The hairspray alone would kill them.
Yes I’m sure those wings would not do well with hairspray. It’s just so much more fun with fire!!!
I get it, and I also know that it can be used as a tactic in a natural disaster or major man-made calamity(boots on the ground).
i live how many firey destruction gifs there are 
Thermite for the termite
I prefer a good Raid Grenade!
Termitinated.
This might be odd to a lot of you but we don't have termites in the uk. I didn't know they could fly, wtf? I thought they were like big ants that eat wood
They can only fly when they are swarming. The original colony has gotten too big so the winged ones leave to form their own colonies. Kinda like the UK used to do
Well played. Do you think the termites *coax* the unwanted termites out with persecution or resource scarcity?
nope, just enticed them with the prospect of a puritanical homeland, and they take off in droves.
It's population density and instinct. Based on our population and the space race, it's the same for us, except we have to create our own wings Edit - LOL I just got it - well played yourself
lmao
The ones that breed fly. Maybe some heavy rain caused a nearby nest to think it’s in danger. The nest starts producing tons of breeders to keep the bloodline going. This is the result - one big termite orgy. Good news is that in a few hours they’ll all be dead.
Cant it be both ?
C"mon guys, you know the answer. Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
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Super Earth approves of this bug eradication message.
For democracy!!
Still learning them. Is that the 500 kg bomb?
They come mostly at the light. Mostly.
Hold on, let me Google this weeks nuke codes
This weeks nuke silo codes are: Alpha 84138947 Bravo 67623748 Charlie 51239897
Thats the way you get radroches
Looks like…some kind of egg chamber
This is The Way
raid incase the explosives don't work
With enough explosives, someone will probably get raided too. I think it counts as both
⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Glad to see a helldiver here spreading democracy. Carry on! O7
I think you need bug bombs and a fumigation tent over the house.
Needs to move
You know what I'd use? Even tho it would be dangerous, a deodorant and a lighter!
The only good bug is a dead bug
Or an inhaler… why’s the dude breathing like he ran a mile?
Release the frogs.
I would bring my racket zapper and a magazine of Pkcells
Raid: Shadow Legends new DLC drop!
Nonsense, I’m sure a small brush and shovel will do the trick.
And a hatchet for your family.
Or a new house.
"Nuke it from space. It's the only way to be sure."
Thermite for the termites
I think you whole house is infested. Time to call an exterminator and get an inspection.
Nah, no need to stress. It’ll just be a mating event and they’re looking for a place to build a new home. They’re very unlikely to find that in your house. They’re looking for wet wood etc first… then they’ll build a tunnel into your house and completely destroy it.
That's wetwood termites. If these are dry wood termites they're home already.
What about Slightly Damp termites?
Dare I ask: moist termites?
This is what happens after the termites in your wall hatch. The damage is already done.
The termites have already been there for a year. This is the next generation of termites looking for a place to set up a new colony. OP could just open the window and 90% of them would voluntarily fly away. Your neighbors would be livid!
These are very common in SE Asia, they hatch in bulk and fly around light bulbs several times a year. Basically they can crawl under doors and in the small spaces in windows and damn near every house gets some inside. Most houses are made of concrete so they cant destroy them, but they can destroy wooden cabinets and doorframes and whatnot.
We close our indoor lights and put a light outside and setup one or two of those mosquito zappers that look like tennis racquets. Smells like shit but entertaining to look at
From what I've learned about chickens, if you closed the doors and set up some ladders against the wall, they'd be scrambling to get in here to eat these.
This is funny af 🤣 😂
If I’m not mistaken I’m surprised you were breathing through your mouth
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Crunchy protein monchies. 0w0
>If I’m not mistaken I’m surprised You'd be the only one who would know if you were surprised.
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Turn off the light and use your phone led light to lure them outside bro
I did that but they refuse to leave and stuck there until they all die out Took an hour to clean the mess
Shit, flame thrower ?
If I have one
Hairspray and lighter, though on second thoughts a hoover?
I...never thought of that
Hairspray minus the fire! It freezes them and makes them fall
isopropyl in a spray bottle works wonders and doesn't leave a sticky residue as it just evaporates after a minute or so. If the floor is tiles I'd damp it woth clorox so whatever falls gets stuck there and maybe geneva conventioned by all the chlorine
Mixing those two things would be extremely dangerous as you’d quickly create a shit ton of chloroform which is highly toxic and doesn’t work like it does in the movies.
It also locks their stylish coiffure in place
I thought everyone learned this as a child
I learned this the hard way. My sister sprayed febreze next to a candle at me while I sat helplessly on the toilet. We both learned a lesson that day.
Shit stank so bad she broke into the toilet and firebreezed you mid pinch.
*mid pinch* has absolutely wrecked me. I'm in so much pain from laughing even my dog's worried, you absolute bastard
I had a bug infestation in a holiday rental I stayed in. I just got the detachable arm on the vacuum and sucked those bastards into the canister. Voila.
Don't do it, lol. It's very dangerous
But it works
Turn that hair dryer on highest heat and start at it
I don't have a hair dryer either
Get a pole , hook up a flashlight and a plastic bag with oil on it, termites will be attracted and then sticked to the plastic bag. Waiting for them to die and then sweep them out takes less effort though.
I… I don’t think using a flamethrower in a small hallway space is the play here.
Oh yeah genius ?
I love when a dumb person says some dumb shit then looks at you dumb as fuck and says some more dumb shit after commenting about how dumb the shit they said really was
I’m a pest control professional that won’t do shit. There’s a whole colony probably in your house eating away at it. I’m assuming your house is on a slab? Either way if it is or isn’t those fuckers are in there. If your house is on a slab. DO NOT SPRAY THEM. It’s easier to kill the colony if we know where they are. Damn I wish you were in my area I’d charge ya good lmao
Thank you for your advice. My house is indeed on slab and I will contract pest control service to check it Ps: slab but with brick reinforce with steel, not concrete
No problem man. Termites are gold for pest control. There are two ways to treat it. They can use bait. They just bait the inside and put bait in your yard. Or they can do liquid. If they use liquid they will have to drill into your home it’s much more expensive and time consuming. They will pump around 10 gallons of pesticides every 10 linear feet. We use bait it’s much cheaper on everyone and it’s safer for the environment and your home, it’s also more effective. Not every pest control company can use bait though. It’s cheaper if you don’t use a chain company as well; local will be cheaper, but they may not do a good job. So do your research
As someone who’s dealt with ALOT of contractors of all varieties, you definitely sound like you know your trade and I wanted to thank you for taking the time to chime in to help OP. Solid advice from an honest contractor that actually, truly, knows their shit is invaluable.
Thank you! That was actually very nice and I greatly appreciate it. I work hard and a lot. Me and my family own a business. Worked from the ground up. We didn’t advertise until recently. The only way our name spread was from honest work. We started advertising a couple years ago and we are by far the biggest company in our city we travel 100 miles north, south, east, and west. Hopefully one day we can even expand to multiple locations. Have a great day, that made me feel good. Thank you!
I'm reading all your comments in Dale Gribble's voice.
Bait stations are my go to for termite for prevention. What do you use for already infected house? Dominon 4L, termidor?
I use sentricon termite stations
Termidor is the standard treatment.
I tell people all the time to try leaving the evidence so a pest control person can investigate but it's hard to have them swarm like that and not want to clean. That said, they are probably subterranean so somewhere in the house mud tubes should be present. I've seen plenty of ti.es mud tubes as these alates come out and it's not always easy to find. With that many swarmers there is a very large and active colony close by. You don't want to just start spraying with insecticide because that will do nothing to solve the bigger problem.
TIL that termites fly!
RIGHT? The other comments are talking about solutions and I'm just sitting here floored at the idea that termites fly lmaooo.
Termites and Ants evolved from Wasps. Makes sense that they kept flight for reproduction
They fly when it's time to mate. We get swarms every year around later April to early May. Fly in to New Orleans International Airport at the end of April and you'll see them crowed around any and every light source.
Well, I know when I'm not going to New Orleans
Wait till you see the flying roaches. They like to aim for your face.
Ants fly too. In my work, 90% of the time people think they have termites, they don't.
The general rule is (probably with a few exceptions, I'm no expert) but generally, all adult insects have wings. I'm guessing most of which can fly.
Turn on the vacuum
By the sounds of it, he is the vacuum
Omg. This got me cackling
This makes my skin crawl :/ Time for fumigation.
Get your vacuum cleaner with the hose attachment and a small light on the tip. Turn off your lights and start sucking up those bastards.
Unleash some bats in the house
What eats bats?
Some dude in Wuhan
Dudes breathing heavy as fuck with all airspace full of termites. Stop breathing so much! Breath through your shirt wtf
You know, they’re edible at this stage.. just saying 🐾
Invest in a couple dozen gecko lizards.
I was thinking of chickens &/or bats, but I like your idea
Turn the lights out. They are attracting to lights. Open a window. Damn, they usually don’t hit us until Mother’s Day. You need to have your house checked. There is probably more.
Shopvac is your friend. Also call the exterminator.
Where do you live so I know to never move there
 Looks like that house needs a strong cup of liberTea!
a bridal flight is not the same as an infestation.
Winged, flying termites are the reproductive ones that are setting out on their own to start a new colony. If they are doing that in your house, one thing can lead to the other.
.. and the other can lead to the one. But for now they only have sex on their termite minds
House is fucked bruh. It'll never sell now.
Where’s Hans when you need him?
Vacuum
Could be used in a horror movie especially with the heavy breathing
how do you know those are termites?
They turned me into a newt.
Where? What country?
Vietnam
Yeah was gonna say I lived in Thailand for some time and some seasons the flying termites were brutal. We'd close our windows but those fuckers would just crawl through the light sockets
The way you just.. nonchalantly walked through a swarm of bugs.. it will haunt my dreams.
This is a termite swarm. They are looking for a new home and ran into yours. Unfortunately for them they can’t survive in a dry environment for too long. They’ll die and drop to the floor. Just need a shop vac. If you can actually see them you may be better off than you think. It’s the ones you can’t see that are munching on your house.
This is nightmare fuel
TIL termites can fly
Set up a box fan with a large fiberglass HVAC filter in front and allow them to get sucked in / stuck. Spray in something to kill them with, and then bag/trash the filter. This will help with the flying ones without immediately bug bombing the area. Also, be careful to not spray anything flammable into the motor when killing the bugs. Keep the fan on while killing them or they will get free.
turn off all your lights coz they are attracted to it
Break out the electric flyswatter
The sound of you hyperventilating adds to the stress of this video. Well done. The solution to this is actually super simple. Fire.
Time to bust out the vacuum
Vacuum hose and suck-o-lux those suckers right out of the air.
It's like in the cartoons when they just wood chipper your whole house in 3 seconds
Fly strip should help.
Hair spray and a lighter
I once saw a video of a chimp poking a branch into a termite mound to get termites out and eat them. You should get a chimp.
The breathing in this video really sets in the fear.
They're definitely not eating the wood in your house's foundation...
Call a pro, bro.
Psst….you got termites🫣
A shop vac would be pretty handy
Dawg, you gotta burn it down and never look back
That's crazy. It's been some years but I was putting up some laundry in the laundry room of an apartment I was renting and I was kind of looking at the wall and it looked like something came through the wall and it really tripped me out. Lol. It turns out it was termites and they ate through the sheetrock and then just started flying everywhere. I guess I had never seen one in person until that point so I didn't even really know what it was It's definitely a trip, specially when you're not expecting it.
I wish I could unsee this.
Formosan termites. They swarm here every spring. Gotta turn off all your lights and hope they are drawn to the streetlights. I won't even watch tv when they are in season. I close all the windows & blinds and sit in the dark, reading my kindle. Just vacuum 'em up, OP. You'll be ok.
Why is this interesting as fuck? This is gross as fuck.
Can you all save some just in case my landlord raises the rent again?
Vacuum??
Install a bright light outside the door, turn off the inside lights and they will all goto the light out side, close the door and then turn off the outside light..
So much flying. Much nopes. Fire. Fire. Fire.
Yes… JUST your hallway has them….
termites can fly ?????????
Dangle the end of a shop vac hose from the ceiling in center of the hall, turn on and place a lamp at the end of the hose and leave, closing the doors and turning off the lights. Check back in an hour.
Burn it down. It's the only way.
wait termites can fly?!?
Yes, it’s a way for them to communicate with the colony to let them know where to attack the area(Aka eating wood). It’s wild.
Turn the fucking lights off silly goose. First Time?
The Hawaiian methods is to get a pool or bucket of water, add a little dish soap. Turn off all the lights and point a spot light (or flash light) into the water. The termites are attracted to light. They’ll swim to the light and get stuck in the water. They get mating swarms like that a couple times per year in the islands. This works like a charm.
Nope.
Just turn off the dam lights when there's heavy rain, works every time
On a scale of 1-10 my friend you‘re fucked.
You need to become a Helldiver, bring democracy and kill those god forsaken Terminids r/Helldivers
 You mean spreading Freedom?
I'd love to see an electric flyswatter go through that swarm
HANS GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER!
No other choice 