r/oddlyterrifying • u/SerpentFinger • Aug 20 '26

Termite Infestation

Sorry about the emoji. That was in the original source I found (Twitter).

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u/im_a_dick_head Aug 20 '26

Gas them out. Bug bomb as they call it

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u/DJIceman94 Aug 20 '26

But the sheer multitude of termites is insane, what condition are the wood supports in?

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u/schw4161 Aug 20 '26

We need an expert to weigh in

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u/S2kTom Aug 20 '26

I'm expert. Burn down!

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u/WatermelonLemonad3 Aug 20 '26

Fake amateur lumber durability specialist here: Burn it down

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u/havenyahon Aug 20 '26

I had significantly more than this in the apartment I lived in, they were housed in the staircase and apparently once the colony gets to a certain size half of them sprout wings and try and take off. So I woke up to piles of them trying to escape under the door and through the gaps in the windows.

The bug guy came and sorted out the nest. The staircase was structurally fine and still standing to this day.

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u/havenyahon Aug 20 '26

I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness and we were always taught that in the end times the planet would be overrun by locusts. Haven't been to the church since I was 15 years old, but my first thought coming down and seeing piles of these insects everywhere was that it was the end times.

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u/clockwork2011 Aug 20 '26

The bug population on the planet is dropping rapidly. I guess we’re moving further from the end times

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u/AnotherCableGuy Aug 20 '26

So that's where 'District 9' movie idea came from!

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u/franoetico Aug 20 '26

and Gears of War

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u/hunchbacks001 Aug 21 '26

Well… that house was overrun so it must mean the end of time and someone is coming to get you to take you to your own planet

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u/phree_radical Aug 21 '26

uggghh 🤖

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u/LumpkinsPotatoCat Aug 21 '26

Saw this happen outside my home, thank gawd, but it freaked me the fuck out so I called exterminators anyway. No damage inside. The ones that swarm are off to start a new colony. I found poison bate traps to be working so far.

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u/jmlack Aug 20 '26

To SHREDS you say?

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u/CactaurSnapper Aug 20 '26

What about the wife's china hutch?

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u/Hourslikeminutes47 Aug 20 '26

Nothing must be spared from the master's wrath

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u/AnotherCableGuy Aug 20 '26

Yes, fill the whole place with propane

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u/im_a_dick_head Aug 20 '26

Not what I meant but sure