Alates

Notes:

See it at evening, approximately 1-2 hours after sunset. They are actually live at underground cave, and in reproductive season, usually in the beginning of rainy season (for tropical country), the worker make a long alleys from the underground cave to the surface of the ground. They usually appear as a flat hollow protected with thin ground layer. After rain day, they will open almost all the surface of the hollow. Bigger termites guard will stay outer, and the worker will work to make the hollow as an easy way for the alates to go out. As what I've been observing since elementary, they are several type of alates. The others alates can do these activity above at morning, evening, midnight, or when the rain were accompanied by storm or even just drizzle. They all actually has the different almost of their life, wing, color of termites, dominant body color etc. First photo show the late stage, 2nd the beginning until the 5th photo. Simple notes: Alate and termites above are the most interesting insect. A large of colony has at least queen (gynes), king (drones), and three kinds of termite (worker, big guard, smaller guard). As I've seen, there are small research about this one, it could be you!