If you look closer you may notice that a drywood termite pellet has six concave surfaces and rounded ends which makes it similar to a deflate football or an oblonged pea.
Termite frass termite droppings from ceiling.
Termite droppings is the important sign of the presence of drywood termites.
These piles could be drywood termite droppings known as frass.
When it comes to the color termite frass differs greatly depending on the kind of wood and cellulose food source ranging from dark brown to beige.
The peculiarity of the drywood termite is frass fecal droppings of termites.
All the particles are more or less of the same length 1 mm.
Termite droppings drywood termites leave behind ridged light brown fecal pellets called frass.
Homeowners can identify drywood termites using their droppings that are usually originate in the form of pellets.
So there would be small black marks and dark substances which would result into the termite droppings.
While cleaning their nests they push this frass outside of their nest through the holes.
Piles of wings or mud tubes.
Mysterious piles of pellets are indicative of drywood termite presence.
Drywood termites typically leave few signs of activity in homes.
When they clean out their nest they push these droppings out through holes.
Unfortunately if frass is kicked out of a termite burrow in the ceiling or some other place it can fall unto the floor wooden or carpet where it is unlikely to ever be detected.
This is especially true for homeowners who have know clue what frass looks like.
When drywood termites infest structural timbers in your ceiling cracks may occur due to the shifting wood.