These are termite excrement or droppings and they are called frass.
When you see a heap of these on the floor or anywhere else in the house, you know that you're infested with drywood termites, those wood-eating insects that are often called the "silent destroyer" because they secretly thrive in furnitures and walls without seeing immediate signs of damage until weeks or months later.
Although there are many types of termites,
the pellets below are from drywood termites. When termites make its home inside walls or anywhere around the house, they excrete these pellets after consuming wood and push them out of their holes that's why you see countless of these on the floor. Each is about a millimeter in length with rounded corners. Even though one is fascinated by these pellets that look like sand, they already show the extensive damage caused.
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