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Termite Damage

Termites usually avoid exposure to unfavourable environmental conditions, remaining hidden in tunnels in earth and wood.

Where they need to cross an impervious or unfavourable substrate, they cover their tracks with tubing made of faeces, plant matter, and soil. Sometimes these shelter tubes will extend for many metres, such as up the outside of a tree reaching from the soil to dead branches. Most termite barrier systems used for buildings aim to prevent concealed termite access, thus forcing them out into the open where they must form clearly visible shelter tubes to gain entry. Schedule a Free Home Inspection today. Call 229-891-3501.

Termites

  • Because of their wood-eating habits, termites can do great damage to wooden structures.
  • Termites remain concelead and damages are often not detected until severe.
  • Termites also damage paper, cloth, carpets, and other cellulosic materials.
  • Termite damaged soft material may still be used for construction.
  • Particles taken from soft plastics, plaster, rubber and sealants such as silicon rubber and acrylics are often employed in construction.

Precautions

Avoid contact of susceptible timber with ground by using termite-resistant concrete, steel or masonry foundation with appropriate barriers. Termites are able to bridge these with shelter tubes, and able to chew through piping made of soft plastics and lead. New buildings should be constructed with embedded physical termite barriers to hinder concealed entry. It is preferable that these be used for existing buildings without effective physical barriers.

Termite Barriers!

The intent of termite barriers (whether physical, poisoned soil, or some of the new poisoned plastics) is to prevent the termites from gaining unseen access to structures. In most instances, termites attempting to enter a barriered building will be forced into the less favourable approach of building shelter tubes up the outside walls and thus they be clearly visible both to the building occupants and a range of predators. Regular inspection by a competent (trained and experienced) inspector is your best defense.

Resitant Timber!

Use of timber that is naturally resistant
to termites such as Canarium australianum (Turpentine Tree), Callitris glaucophylla (White Cypress), or one of the Sequoias. Note that there is no tree species whose every individual tree yields only timbers that are immune to termite damage, so that even with well known termite-resistant timber types, there will occasionally be pieces that are attacked.

Termite Invasion

When Termites have already penetrated a building, the first action is usually to destroy the colony with insecticides before removing the termites' means of access and fixing the problems that encouraged them in the first place. Baits (feeder stations) with small quantities of disruptive insect hormones or other very slow acting toxins have become the preferred least-toxic management tool in most western countries, replacing the dusting of toxins direct into termite tunnels which had been widely done since the early 1930s (Australia).

Destroying Termites

The main dust toxicants have been the inorganic metallic poison arsenic trioxide, insect growth regulators (hormones) such as Triflumuron and, more recently, fipronil. Blowing dusts into termite workings is a highly skilled process. All these slow-acting poisons can be distributed by the workers for considerable periods (hours to weeks) before any symptoms occur and are capable of destroying the entire colony. With termites, the best defense is to be proactive in prevention and treatment. Left untreated, termite damage only worsens.

Other Methods

More modern variations include chlorfluazuron, Diflubenzuron, hexaflumuron, and Novaflumuron as bait toxicants and fipronil and imidacloprid as soil poisons. Soil poisons are the least-preferred method of control as this requires much larger doses of toxin and results in uncontrollable release to the environment. Blease Exterminating can determine if you have any infestations and take the best precations available to eliminate or prevent and termite damage. Call today for a free home inspection and quote, at 229-891-3501.!