Termites Control Products
No one would ever wish to harbour pests in their home or place of work. Everyone knows that pests either bring various disease-carrying germs or cause great damage to property, or both. It is thus extremely important to be aware of ways of combating pests.
Termites, in particular, are dangerous because if nothing is done about their presence in a residential or commercial structure, their colonies could really spread and grow in numbers and cause damage not only to furniture and documents but to the entire edifice. They will cause the destruction of the woodwork, walls and ceilings and prevent resale of the property since termite inspection is usually required before a home or building can be put up for sale and declared inhabitable or ready for occupancy.
Pest
The presence of “swarmers” or winged termites, sometimes converging near light sources, is a definitive sign of termite infestation. They can be dry wood termites, which require only low levels of moisture, or subterranean termites, which originate from their dwellings in the soil or around the foundations, pillars and walls of structures, building mud-like tunnels through cracks in the concrete—and thus, as a result, even concrete and slab buildings are not exempt from termite damage.
Although various termiticides, pesticides and insecticides are widely available in the market, most are repellent types that termites eventually learn to work around by finding gaps where the smell or taste of the chemicals is not detected. Lethal non-repellent termiticides and baits are more highly preferred because termites cannot taste or smell them. As a rule, when termite colonies re-appear a short time after treatment with any pesticide or termiticide, it is usually not a sign that the treatment was ineffective. Rather, it is because a new colony has come along and has found an area that was not covered during the last treatment.
Basically, preventing or combating termites is not a do-it-yourself job. Specialized knowledge, skills and equipment are involved. In addition to baiting, fumigation and other chemical application techniques, other approaches are sometimes also required. These are heating or freezing (using tarpaulin tent assemblies), electrical shock (90-kilovolt, 0.5-amp, 60-kHz treatment), microwave-array heating, and antibiotic application (using nematodes and mite-born fungi). One must therefore find a reliable professional company specializing in these skills and services.