Alates (winged) and Delates(wingless)

Alate or Winged

Wingled Queen Termite

Winged males

Nuptial Fligts

Delate Queen lives for 30 years, depending on the species, climates, availability of nesting, nutrition and rain flooding their domain.

I use black ants to destroy fire ants in our rooftop garden.

Cocoa tree is where black ants live and my orchirds flower only when the black ant population is healthy.

I believed they lived 100 years, the way they destroy my books adequately sprayed with thinner (Coal Tar Creosolate) with added aspirin (I got to know this receipe from our Master Carpenter Navaratna).

The termites must be having a field day now.

Many Male alates

Male delate

Single female delate

Single nuptial

Eggs

Nymph (I hate the word larva and pupa)

Workers

Soldiers

Swarms

Cycle repeat itself.