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Today, I used the shop vac and cleaned up my screened in porch. Then I sat down on the step outside. Well, all these things were crawling around and then I noticed they had wings. They were on the steps, on the screens on the porch, trying to get in the back door, everywhere. My husband took a look and then the called the exterminator who we have the termite contract with on our house. It just so happened he was in our county and within about thirty minutes he was here. Well, he said they looked like termites, but didn't act like termites, whatever that means. He went under the house and didn't find anything. He is the man who does quarterly spraying for bugs, which is done with a lesser solution than what they originally treated the house with when it was built 2002. He caught some of the critters and put them in a jar to take in to show his boss. The boss will make the executive decision. In the meantime he decided to give us a spray all the way around the house. Well, my cats live in the back yard. We have been in the process of replacing the shrubs there. We are replanting in stages and we have it all done but for maybe five plants we need to buy. Well, my husband puts down the landscaping paper and then tops it with pine straw for mulch. So all of that now is just open dirt that the exterminator sprayed a chemical on. So that means I can't put the cats back out there until we get it covered with the landscaping paper and the pinestraw. I don't want them walking around where that stuff has been sprayed. For now they are on the screen porch. When we go to bed, I will put them in the garage in the big pet cage. But they are antsy wanting outside. If they determine the critters are termites, then they will have to come back and retreat the house, go under it etc, and spray the stronger solution. So he can't fix the yard until we know it is all over. What a messy day.