A lot of people mistake termites for ants and vice-versa because they look very similar. But when you take a closer look, you’ll notice they do not possess the same physical features. To start, ants have a narrow waist with 3 distinct body regions contrary to termites which have a straight waist with 2 body regions. Then if you look at their antennae, you’ll see that termites have straight or slightly curved antennae while ants have elbowed or bent antennae. Their wings are also different: ants possess two pairs of wings of unequal size while termites’ wings are the same size, however, both insects are black in the alate form.