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Can anyone please help to ID these creatures
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Have you tried to find it in one of the AW Insect books?


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Could it be a harvester termite -O-


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I have looked at the wasps and bees and it is not there and it has no wings :-?

It does not look like a termite, but I do not know much about insects in SA -O-


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Alf wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 2:35 pm Could it be a harvester termite -O-
It looks a lot like one! https://www.google.com/search?q=harvest ... 17&bih=694


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I thought it was a termite. -O-


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The naughty buggers 0=


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Where are/were they?


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They are on my lawn (0!)


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You'd better get rid of them before they reach the house O**


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