Mud Cricket Pics. Because drywood and dampwood termites live entirely inside the wood on which they feed, you likely will not see signs of their presence, unless you see a swarm or droppings underneath damaged wood. On that stretch of mud and sand that lies. It happened on the A at. Children playing between wild animals very dangerous. These mud tubes, which look like thin lines of dried mud about the width of a pencil, are a telltale sign of the presence of subterranean termites.