are the Chinese elm, several species of oak, hackberry, and velvet ash. Dead trees 
are highly susceptible. Extensive damage all the way to the top of 20-m-tall 
baldcypress snags has been observed in Louisiana (77). 
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Figure 15.—Soldier of the Formosan 
subterranean termite, 
Coptotermes formosanus. 
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Figure 16.—Formosan subterranean termite colony and 
damage: A, carton nest and damaged wood above a 
window inside a building; B, colony of workers in a 
cypress log. 
Families Kalotermitidae and Rhinotermitidae 
Nonsubterranean Termites 
Many species of nonsubterranean termites occur in the Eastern States. They are 
found throughout Florida, also in a narrow strip along the Atlantic Coast as far 
north as southeastern Virginia, and westward along the Gulf Coast to Mexico. 
Infestations are found in structural timber and other woodwork in buildings, 
furniture, utility poles, wooden derricks, piles of lumber, wood pulp or fiber 
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