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Poisoning termite nest
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"terryc" wrote in message news The problem about putting down a barrier is that I'd have to completely circle the whole house to considerable depth as they have hit other houses all around (but xoo metres away). What i really want is some liquid that I can have on hand and pour on the soil where & when I discover them that they will pick up and take back to their nest. Loosing this nest isn't going to affect the local bushland (next street over), if that is where they are coming from. The local bushland is very healthy with mound building termites and I love taking the local kids down the bush to show them the new ones being built and educating them about the different termites. which reminds me,if I ever get the Tv capture card working again, I can use it to try and identify what might be a little white termite that turns up in my cool-style compost bins. I built the "microscope" that was a project in Silicon Chip sometime ago, which uses alittle matchbox cmos camera and a lense from an old slr camera. Okay, procrastinated enough. Nowe I have to go and meke SWMBO a cuppa. good for you! back to the subject. our house came with a free set of termites - same situation as you, they are everywhere round here (& i don't object to that of course), but the reason they were eating our house was due to flooding in the past which rotted some of the wood. we fixed things so that flooding in the future is unlikely to happen, and we;re going to replace the wood asap, but yes, it's always going to be a "risk". i got a pestie round who used "exterra" traps round the house (and one inside). this is the thing you want - the traps contain cellulose baited with "requiem" (titter!) which they take home to the main nest & die from. it's NOT a poison in the usual sense - it basically destroys their jaws so they can't eat & subsequently all die. which isn't nice, but there you go. i believe you can't get a poison they take home, however, i may be wrong about that. if you can, it must be very slow-acting so they wouldn't associate the two events, otherwise they'll stop eating it & you've achieved nothing. if such a thing was available, i'm pretty sure everyone would know, so i'm therefore not sure that what you want actually exists. at any rate. the exterra traps solved the problem of infestation chez moi. the traps are unbaited to start with, then once they have begun to eat the bait, the additive is put in as well. the only thing to do after that, & in your situation, is to ensure that they won't visit the house again anyway. this means all the usual malarky of fixing leaks & monitoring the slab & ensuring all woodwork is dry & sound etc etc. truthfully, if there is plenty of functional bushland around with wood rotting in the ground for them to eat, your house isn't at unusual risk unless there are problems with the house - as you've seen by them eating the tree stump instead because it was rotting but the house was not. i think i read above that the crawl-space under the house is very small..? even so, keep checking anyway. get a small person if you don't want to do it yourself! That should be easy, Dwarves are always looking for work. not sure if this post helps or not :-) also, i found exterra treatment to be quite expensive!!!! but on the other hand, it solved the problem & the extra tips & info i got from the pestie was free. and the baits are permanent, so if any subsequent treatment is required, part of the trouble & expense will not be there 2nd time around. having said all that, unless you have termites in your actual house, you don't want exterra treatment, i'm sure - they would do it, but you might find it hard to justify the expense on a "just in case" basis. however, i DO know there is a treatment they will eat & take home which kills. but i also know it cannot be sold to joe-on-the-street. they won't sell it to you as-is. kylie |
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