The recommended settings are for not more than 100 termites and 1000 woodchips to avoid excessive slowdown.
The termites are the circles and woodchips are the red dots. Termites carrying a chip are green, those not carrying one are black.
It will take a really large number of iterations to see large piles building up, but you should be able to see the piling behavior almost from the start
Implementation: alessandro averchi 2018
N. of Termites
N. of Woodchips