Great video Tyler. I was out with kids in Accokeek yesterday dipping for 
macros and had the same experience. We jostled a big log that lays over 
the creek and the termites started rolling out. It went on for at least 
a half hour. I wonder if they come back??

Chris Ordiway
Hard Bargain Farm
Accokeek, MD

On 5/31/2011 12:52 PM, James Tyler Bell wrote:
>
> OK, they're not birds but they have wings. I was out doing streams 
> today at SERC
> and noticed something odd about a standing dead stump. There was a 
> swarm of bugs
> above it. I grabbed the work camera and flipped it over to video. The 
> camera is
> old so the quality isn't great but it was really something! The 
> termites were
> crawling up out of the dead stump and when they got to the top, they 
> took off.
> Shortly after I stopped shooting, it tapered to almost no bugs at 
> all. Timing is
> everything!
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/8671193@N08/5781654061/in/photostream/
>
> Tyler Bell
>


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