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Winter active, their nests are sealed off during warmer months.
Turret entrances (5th photo) are only built during wetter (La Niña?) winters. They start as a loose cone of soil granules which consolidate to a tube in damp weather and are then extended. This turret has collapsed to a mud puddle in heavy rain but has been rebuilt was still growing at the time I photographed it.

See https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/196889788ee for the termite.

This colony was accidentally found inside of a hollow wooden gall (the left of the two in the first image). The gall was about the size of a golf ball and was found attached to to a Lantana canara stem. When the gall was split open, this small colony was revealed (including workers, winged queens, and drones). In the centre of the last image, a larger worker can be seen standing almost on top of a much smaller worker