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dddd
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3345
Location: NorCal

11/2/13 10:29 PM

Termite question

Not the Termite Forum, I know, but does anyone here know how to tell if a termite is a "dry-wood" termite by visual inspection?

Odd little critter I found (second one this month) runs backward when approached from any direction.
Fairly skinny and the antennae are particularly short.

I've had one person tell me to ask someone from the dept of ag, and others who told me that termite industry folks are not so trustworthy.

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Steve B.
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Posts: 769
Location: Long Island, NY

11/2/13 11:02 PM

My experience with termites was extensive at my first house.

The version we get on Long Island was either the little worm like white thing that eats the wood and makes the mud tunnels, or were the winged ant like critters that swarmed in the spring.

I only saw the white ones if I found an active tunnel. I saw the winged versions if the colony had gotten too large, which is why they swarmed and it was never just a few but was always a lot.

What you should do is collect them, stick them in a Baggie and show them to an exterminator. They can identify them as termites or not.

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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19068
Location: PDX

11/2/13 11:49 PM

http://www.termites.com/types-of-termites/

Funny, I had just been to tat site yesterday morning after telling my wife of a conversation with a exterminator that was on our block.

Soliciting apparently, as there is a house going up across the street. I remember when I bought this place the Realtor looked at me funny when she let me in for my inspection when I mentioned termites as one of the things I was looking for. Apparently, not anywhere near here, which was a first for me thinking they were everywhere. Just where I have lived/worked previously apparently. ;)


How far north in CA are ya? I forget where I mailed tat shifter.

Any Juniper stands near you?


According the that site:

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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield

11/3/13 2:18 PM

Try the biology department of a university. Good luck

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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6884
Location: Maine

11/3/13 4:56 PM

No termites here but

I am currently battling a fruit fly infestation. Kitchen cleaned, vinegar traps set, enemy casualties are mounting. I feel the tide is turning.

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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19068
Location: PDX

11/3/13 5:04 PM

fruit fly infestation


Cleans all the traps out! Especially a garbage disposal!

Had a bad bout in TN, small issue here this year as well.

They hate Dawn dish washing liquid BTW. We use the hand foam soap dispensers with diluted dawn in them. The blue Dawn seems to work best. I just squirt the foam from the dispenser into the drains after cleaning the sink/loading the DW and even pump it into the garbage to keep them at bay.


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dddd
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
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Location: NorCal

11/3/13 10:15 PM

I've had odors eminate from the disposal vent/drain, so perhaps a fly infestation could take root in there, the line that goes to the vent that sits atop the sink deck.
I used a rubber hose to blast a generic "scrubbing bubbles"-type foam in the vent all the way down into the disposal, and them passages were left very clean and odor-free. I also use the Scrubbing Bubbles can with a hose to maintain the flow of the shower drain, which occasionally plugs from hair conditioning products I believe. It mimics the "foaming pipe snake" product, and, I believe, even precedes it. The generic product is only 99 cents, although not so effective as the real Scrubbing Bubbles in all honesty.

One more thing about bugs like kitchen moths or weevils, the spider population is very quick to multiply in response and tends to nicely regulate the appearance of the flying vermin as long as the homeowner isn't too easily creeped out. The kitchen spiders are pretty good about staying put right where the problem originates, such as a bag of oats, whole wheatflour, or trail mix.

Here's a picture of the OC, or "original critter". I'm not sure that this is really a termite. When pestered, the bug pokes it's arse at the ground, which apparently has a suction-cup function as the bug can tug it's body rearward using the tail-tip grip, and do so in fairly rapid repetition much as an inchworm travels in the foreward direction.

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