When Your Uninvited Guest Eat Your Home

If you have termites you may or may not know it until the infestation has caused permanent structural damage. In order to help you avoid finding out the hard way that your foundation has been eaten by these pesky buggers, here are a few indicators to help you know when you have an infestation on your hands of biblical proportions that requires termite control experts STAT.

First off termites look like ants with a few minor body discrepancies and unless you are going to be picking them up and comparing antes and body shapes you may just have to assume any small black ant like creature is a termite until a bug expert tells you otherwise. This unwanted house guest come alive in the spring because of rain and warm weather and hatch with wings to fly into their new homes. Actually their new home is kind of your current one but that doesn’t really bother this uninvited guest as they eat their way through the wooden structures in your home, going after books, insulation and anything else that appeals to them. Once these winged pests have gained entry into your home they set up housekeeping with a termite of the opposite gender, loose their wings and set out to colonize your home. Now not only do you have the original infestation of termites you have their eggs and babies in your home too and the next generation of termites will not need to go very far to find companionship or food.

Obviously you don’t want these insects in your home eating you literally out of house and home so you need to look at your termite control options. Do your research before you start calling pest control companies so you will know what to ask and how to select a good company for termite control. Some things you should know include what type of pesticide does the company use? The two basic options available are bait traps or liquid. Each have their own benefits and negative factors so which one you decide to go with depends a lot on your geographic area, how big of a problem you have and what your experts in the area recommend going with.
You can also choose to treat the whole house or do spot treatments based on where you or the pest control tech are finding activity. The trouble with spot control treatments is they are not likely to be as effective as treating the whole area. You know these guys can hide, you know they have colonized in every crevice and crack they can find and you know they are out there, somewhere in the dark waiting to fly past you as you make your way to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Do you really want to skimp on treatment and risk another round of termites coming to the surface?
Talk to your termite control expert and terminate your problem before it becomes an even bigger problem.