Interesting! I was thinking about asking him if their termites are on the deadly insect list.
We have a type of ant here called meat ants and they absolutely love termites. Whenever there is any impact on the ground they are out of the nest and everywhere looking for the tree that may have come down. But splitting a few rounds near the nest has the same effect. They were all over the place yesterday scrounging them up.
We have two substantial nests at our place and if I have picked up wood that has termite pipes up them I will sometimes chuck it out of the trailer next to the nest and split it there. The ants come flying out and pick out all the termites. The only thing is that you don't want to stand stihl for too long or you're on the menu too.