What is it if it's not termites?
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Nelda
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On the outside of our house we have very very tiny black bugs that are building tubes up under the siding.
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Wood-destroying pests can be divided into four categories: (1) carpenter ants, (2)termites, (3) bark beetles and woodborers, and (4) powderpost beetles. any individuals with ant problems fear the insects are termites. Carpenter ants are cavity dwellers.
carpenter ants perhaps ?
Look close, do they have wings? Could they be flying ants. No joke, we had them boring into our drywall in our garage. They left piles of sawdust where they worked.
Carpenter ants here are huge and have large mandibels.
Are they little dirt tubes with ridges, if so we used to call them dirt divers.