My home has had a big problem with termites these last couple weeks. I’m ready for them to be gone. I have tried a few different ways to get rid of them, but nothing has worked. I’ve never tried termite monitoring, but now I really want to. It sounds like it would work really well!
VIEW MORECertain conditions around the foundation of a home such as moisture, heavy mulch, and dense vegetation attract pests. Some pests such as millipedes, sow bugs, crickets, and earwigs thrive in damp places with decaying vegetation. In these situations, we direct customers to clean up and simplify conditions around the perimeter of their homes to keep
VIEW MOREWe just bought a 25-year old home and I’m worried about termites. How do we know whether the house has termite protection? What do we need to do to protect our new investment from wood damage? P. F., Norfolk, MA Good for you for being proactive. Too many people wait until they see evidence of
VIEW MOREI’ve read that Formosan termites can cause a lot of damage to a home in a relatively short time. I’ve also read that we don’t have Formosan termites here in the Northeast. How worried do we really need to be about termite damage? C.C., Sutton, MA It’s true that Formosan termites are really bad dudes.
VIEW MOREWe have a customer who has a pretty serious termite problem in her home but doesn’t want to schedule a termite service until next summer. She’s convinced herself that since we are approaching colder winter weather, the termites will stop any feeding activity until sometime next spring. “Well, they must hibernate,” she says. ‘Fraid not,
VIEW MOREUnlike carpenter ants which tunnel through wood, termites actually eat the wood so the damage they leave behind in the wood is not neat and clean as it is with carpenter ants. The damaged wood will be plastered with a muddy mixture of yellowish‑brown digested wood and soil. When it dries, it looks a bit
VIEW MOREI found a termite nest in a stump in our yard. That got me to wondering how termites find the wood that they infest. If they’re attracted to some chemical put out by the wood, it seems like the wood in our homes could be coated with something so that termites couldn’t detect it. B.
VIEW MOREAn individual worker termite may live only a year or two, but the colony of which it is a member can exist and grow for decades. The death of a single worker termite has no discernible effect on the colony which functions as a single cooperative entity. It’s the Colony Life Span That is Important
VIEW MORESubterranean worker termites and swarmer termites look so very different that people often think they are two different insect species. They’re not, just different forms of the same species. Worker termites are whitish, wingless, and soft-bodied without any protective cuticle on the outside. That’s why you rarely see worker termites. They either stay in the
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