The best solution for termite treatment at home

Termites are known as “toothless tigers“ and “invisible killers of modern buildings”, which shows how harmful they are. On the one hand is that termites need to feed on cellulose-containing materials such as wood in order to survive, thus causing damage to people’s property. On the another hand is that termite activity can affect the integrity and stability of houses, dams, trees, etc., and pose a threat to public safety. Termite treatment at home is a problem for most people.

There are three main reasons about why termites harm buildings.

1. Feeding materials: First, when houses are demolished and rebuilt, there are old termites nests in the foundations of the original old houses and live termites in the residual wood, which cannot be removed during construction; second, the residual broken boards, templates, wood chips and shavings at the construction site, which are buried underground when the ground is spread clean during filling, and some templates are left between the wall and the wall, all of which provide feeding material for termites; third, because interior decoration materials and new furniture are becoming more and more complete, the demand for wood has increased greatly.

2. Light: Due to the long construction time, the construction site is under construction day and night every year, and the lighting is strong. The termite breeding ants have a tendency to light, and the light acts as a lure, so a large number of male and female breeding termites in the surrounding environment tend to light and fly into the site, choosing a place with food to grow and breed and develop a colony. As a result, the house was built less than a few years ago and suffered from termite damage.

3. Environment: There are termite nests inside trees around the house building, and termite colonies often extend through the soil into the building to feed and destroy it, often from the edge close to the soil, platforms, air ducts, pipes, compartments around the flat, expansion joints, gaps in the wall, etc. as a channel to enter the interior and harm it.

Reinforced concrete buildings are also subject to termite infestation. When termites invade the building, they not only rely on their sharp teeth to bite hard objects, but also have a special structure in their head, which can secrete a liquid, ant acid, which is an organic acid that dissolves in water and has a strong corrosive effect when it acts with water in wet places. This acid is an organic acid that dissolves in water and can destroy any building material except glass, resulting in the destruction of the load-bearing walls of the house and the collapse of the house.

Termites are widely distributed in nature and can be found in large numbers in open spaces outside buildings, gardens, walls covered by interior decoration materials and underground. These termites are superb and spread rapidly. They can enter the building by flying and carried by humans, and they can also crawl directly into the building through the expansion joints, wall joints and various pipe network channels.

Because the building is warm in winter and cool in summer, there are many decorative wooden parts and many hidden spaces such as decorative mezzanines, termites like this kind of living environment with food and drink and comfort. Once the termites have made the trek to the building, they tend to breed in this comfortable environment and do harm. Therefore, the termite damage in modern buildings is more serious.

To detect the presence of termites in your home, you can try these methods.

1. Garden patio: Prepare some thick cardboard, plastic sheeting, a large shovel, a small spade and protective gloves. Dig half an inch into the ground where the soil is exposed, flatten the land as much as possible, put two layers of thick cardboard, cover with plastic sheeting (you can show the corners to make it easier to find afterwards), and finally re-cover the soil. Check every half month to see if there are termites under the plastic sheeting or cardboard, and restore it after the check. If it is on grass, you need to dig four inches of depth and fourteen inches of size.

2. Indoor space: When heavy rain comes or in sultry weather, find long-winged bugs flying in groups indoors, or in the evening, find winged bugs gathering and flying in large numbers under the lights, with mostly black and transparent wings; check the wooden components of the house for signs of termite decay, and see if there are blocks and bands of mud (termites paths) on the wooden components or walls, these signs are an indication that there are termites without a doubt.

What should I do if I find termites in my house? Pestman Termite Bait Station can help you to solve the problem easily.

Pestman Termite Bait Station is a bait station in which a block of wood that is attractive to termites is fixed in the bait station and then installed around the house, trees and soil that needs to be protected. When the worker ants are around the bait station, they are attracted by the lure released from the wood block in the soil and quickly build a path to the bait station and enter the bait station to feed. The worker ants that return to the nest feed the bait to the king, queen, soldier ants, workers and young termites in the nest through cross-feeding behavior, resulting in the death of the entire nest. Or, a special powder spraying device can be used to spray the powder on the termites that are feeding on the baited wood, and the drugged termites will pass the powder to the same nesting individuals through hugging and cleaning, which will eventually lead to the death of the whole nest. The baited wood in the bait station was later replaced to allow the device to continue to function as a monitor of termite activity.

Compared with the existing soil chemical barrier method for termite control, it can monitor termite invasion in houses, green areas and woodlands to be protected for a long time. It reduces the amount of toxic chemicals by more than 99%, is non-polluting to water sources, has no effect on aquatic organisms, is suitable for all sites, is safe and environmentally friendly, requires no special protection during operation, and residents and pets in the area of use, their health will not be negatively affected in any way.

Meanwhile, the bait wood of the bait station is processed by the wood that termites like to eat, which has stronger luring power and the number of termites trapped is large. There are 8 pieces of bait wood in the device, which can be fed by tens of thousands of termites at the same time, greatly increasing the speed of the device to kill the whole nest.

When designing the device, we fully considered the behavior of different termites and adopted the placement method of luring wood blocks close to the plastic shell, so that the lured termites can quickly enter the device to feed as soon as they approach the device, which shortens the time for termites to enter the device to feed and improves the luring effect. It is simple and convenient to use. When inspecting the device, you can open the lid of the device and carry out powder spraying treatment (using a powder sprayer to spray special powder for termite control on the termites feeding inside the device) and baiting treatment (applying bait between two pieces of bait wood inside the device) to achieve the purpose of one device with multiple uses (activity monitoring, powder spraying treatment, baiting treatment).

According to the density, area, scope and degree of termite damage to the housing building and the general orientation of the nest, the installation position and quantity of the monitoring device are designed. The outdoor termite monitoring device is installed at 0.3-1m from the exterior wall base with a spacing of 5m. For the ancient buildings with termites infestation, it can be installed at 0.5m from the wall with a spacing of 2-3m.

For the termites that enter the room, you can use fluorescent lights to trap and kill the winged adult termites. Put a basin of water under the light and add a few drops of kerosene. The light source should not be too far from the basin to trap and kill the winged adults. Or use special powder spraying equipment to spray termite exterminator on the body of the installed termites.

If there is a termite treatment at home as soon as possible, you need to choose the right products for treatment according to the actual situation.