Damage, Destruction and Termites
This is more than the damage caused by all fires, earthquakes, and most natural disasters combined. More than 2 million homes require termite treatment each year. Homeowners insurance can help recover losses from fires, floods and earthquakes, but it is almost impossible to get insurance against termites.
Finding out your home has termites can scare most homeowners. You typically can't see them, you can't hear them and frequently only a trained inspector can find signs of an infestation. Treatment by the homeowner for the control of termites is virtually impossible. Specialized equipment is used and only experts have the necessary knowledge for effective control. A trained termite control specialist can provide protection from termite infestation.
Did you know...
that more than 600,000 U.S. homes suffer from termite damage... totaling more than $5 billion annually?
This is more than the damage caused by all fires, earthquakes, and most natural disasters combined. More than 2 million homes require termite treatment each year. Homeowners insurance can help recover losses from fires, floods and earthquakes, but it is almost impossible to get insurance against termites.
Finding out your home has termites can scare most homeowners. You typically can't see them, you can't hear them and frequently only a trained inspector can find signs of an infestation.
Termite Exterminators Treatment by the homeowner for the control of termites is virtually impossible. Specialized equipment is used and only experts have the necessary knowledge for effective control. A trained termite control specialist can provide protection from termite infestation.
Termites are found in almost every state as well as Mexico and parts of Canada. They eat wood and may also destroy paper products such as books, cardboard boxes, furniture, and various other items. Even buildings with steel framing and masonry walls are targets because of the wooden doors., window frames, support beams, cabinets and shelving.
To learn more about how we can develop a termite management plan best suited to your situation, call us, your trained pest professionals, today.
Termite or Ant? How to Tell the Difference
Ant Pest ControlSubterranean termites mainly live underground or in protected areas such as galleries in wood. At a minimum there is always one queen, and many more "secondary reproductives" that are usually present. Most people nevcr see a queen, but may see swarmers or workers. The total number of individuals in a colony of subterranean termites can total more than a million. Imagine a million insects attacking your house at one time!
Workers are small white insects. They are blind and very sensitive to heat, cold and dry air. This sensitivity is why they build shelter tubes or "mud tubes." In fact, they need to maintain an atmosphere of nearly 100 percent humidity. It is possible that if you find shelter tubes, a little smaller in diameter than a pencil, you are noticing the first sign of a termite infestation. Workers are just that, the workforce of the colony whose job it is to find new food sources such as vegetation or wood containing cellulose. Once termites find a food source they put down a chemical signal or pheromone to lead the other workers to the feeding site. They forage and find food sources, commonly in moist areas. When they discover your house or other buildings, they become a real pest and that is when you should give us a call!
In most areas of the country, depending on the species, healthy subterranean termite colonies will "swarm" or send out winged reproductive termites to start new colonies in the spring. The swarmcrs are darker in color, some species are almost black, and have four, similarly-sized wings. For more information on how to tell termites from ants, sec the diagram below.
