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How To Get Rid Of Termites In Your Home

Termites are a special type of pest when it comes to controlling them. Most of the pests that householders come across can be very quickly and easily dispatched, often with a rolled up newspaper or the like. Termites however are a pest that lives in a community with a structure, and that community could be up to one hundred metres from where they are found.

Termites are subterranean in nature meaning that they live (in general) and forage underground, accessing their food source from the ground. When termites have found a food source they will have a tunnel through the soil to it. You will not be able to see this and in reality, will never be able to find it. This tunnel leads from the termite colony to the food source and can be quite a wide carriageway. Often a termite tunnel can be wide enough to enable ten termites abreast (or more) meaning that there is a very large highway with each termite coming into your home to take a bite and return to the colony.

Because of the “connectedness” of the termites to the structure it is a very difficult job to halt their progress. If you have seen a termite it is probably because you have found some damaged timber and seen some inside it, picked up a piece of timber in the yard and found them on the bottom of it, or bumped their earthen tunnel (shelter tube) breaking it open and exposing them. The termites that you can see are the least of your worries, these termites are connected to a colony that can contain up to 2 million individuals depending on which species you are dealing with.

The ideal solution for getting rid of termites is to be able to locate their colony and destroy it. This is easier said than done as many species of termite will build their colony underground, inside a tree, under a tree stump or retaining wall. For more information on termite nesting sites see my article titled “Termite nesting habits”.

If you cannot locate the colony to destroy it then you are left pretty much with two choices, either bait the termites where you have found them, or use a termiticide to treat soil around the structure to keep them out. A third but somewhat less frequently used method to eliminate a termite colony is to introduce a toxicant to the live termites at the point that you have found them, hoping that enough of the toxicant will be carried back to the colony to achieve elimination.

It is my belief that a homeowner is taking an unnecessary risk to try and treat a termite infestation by themselves. My company has a large portion of its work come from other pest control companies who have tried and failed to fix a termite problem for a homeowner, if these experienced people cannot fix it, what makes you think you can?

My advice is to find a specialist termite control company that employs experts, is insured, licensed and offers a good guarantee.

How To Kill Termites With Available Household Solutions

Ordinary table salt is very effective in killing all types of termites. Fill a glass quart jar with salt and add warm water and stir until all the salt is dissolved. You now have a brine solution highly toxic to termites. To apply simply fill a turkey baste syringe with the brine mixture and inject solution into accessible termite galleys at areas of infestation. The salt sodium will dehydrate the pests naturally.

Regular laundry bleach is also highly lethal to termites. Simply introduce the bleach full strength into the termite galleys in the same application manner as the salt. For safety wear glasses to protect your eyes and dishwashing gloves for hand protection. The bleach instantly chemically burns the termites to death on contact and renders the wood at area treated uneatable to future infestations.

Most households contain an aerosol can product of penetrating oil called WD-40 that has more useful uses than duct tape. WD-40 is highly effective in killing termites. It also comes with a handy applicator straw, which makes it easy to inject the solution into the galleys where the termites live. Apply with straw applicator to termite infestation similar to the application technique explained with the baste syringe. WD-40 is mostly fish oil. It naturally kills the termites by clogging their breathing pores. Additionally it leaves behind a pest repellant residual that is non-toxic to humans.

Long before Dow Jones Chemicals or any commercial exterminators existed, everyday people just like you and I were killing their own termites and other household pests. Today you can still treat your own termites naturally while saving money and avoiding possible toxic chemical poisoning of your home and family.

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