Termite

Termite (order Isoptera), any of a group of cellulose-eating insects, the social system of which shows remarkable parallels with those of ants and bees, although it has evolved independently. Even though termites are not closely related to ants, they are sometimes referrers to as white ants.

Types of termite

What do termites look like?

There are above 2,000 species of termites, with over 40 species in the United States alone. Although they have distinct characteristics, most look similar. They typically measure between 1/4 and 1/2 of an inch long and have soft bodies with straight antennae. The queens and kings are larger and capable of reaching over one inch long. Colors range from white to light brown, where worker termites often appear more delicate while swarming termites are darker. Flying termites, also called reproductives, have two pairs of prominent wings.

1.  Dampwood Termites

2.  Drywood Termite

3. Subterranean Termite

4.  Formosan Termite

5.  Arid Land Subterranean Termite

6.  Conehead Termite

7. Dark Southeastern Subterranean Termite

Dampwood Termites

Zootermopsis spp. & Neotermes spp.

Actual Size: 1/2″ to 3/4″, mobs up to 1″

Characteristics: Dampwood termites are markedly larger than subterranean termites and live in damp, decay wood and mulch. The soldiers are wild-looking insects with large flattened brown, reddish heads and elongated black mouths. Nymphs are white to cream-colored, with a darker belly.

Habits

• Dampwood termites can root to serious damage, especially in linked with decayed wood.
• Infest wood with high damp content and eat across the grain of the wood, leaving the wood looking smooth and clean.

What Home Expert Does

Continuous Treatment Plans: With Home Expert, you receive the most reliable termite control from an industry leader. Our Continuous Protection Plans use carefully proven treatments designed for your home’s construction style, and every one of those treatments before guaranteed. You can be assured we’ll help when you can call us.

Customized Treatments: Based on the style of your home and the degree of termite infestation, Home Expert will create a termite treatment plan styled for your home.

Drywood Termite

Cryptotermes spp. & Incisitermes spp.

What Home Expert Does

Since termites feed firstly on wood, they can compromise the strength and safety of an infested structure and cause severe damage to homeowners. Home experts will create a customized termite treatment plan tailored to your situation depending on your property’s layout and the degree of termite infestation. That can include a variety of treatments such as Termidor Liquid, Dry Foam and Home Expert Foam, and Sentricon Bait and Monitoring, dependent on the areas of usage, situations, and species of termite.

Ongoing prevention is your best bet regarding termites because most homeowner insurance plans don’t cover termite damage. Don’t let these irritating pests put a reduction in your home or your pocket. If you’re worried about termites in your house, schedule an appointment to get a free termite inspection from a local Home Expert Pro.

Subterranean Termite

Reticulitermes spp., Coptotermes spp. & Heterotermes spp.

Subterranean Termite Identification
Its Colour is Creamy white to dark brown/black. It has six legs. The shape of termite is Long, narrow, and oval. The size of the termite is 1/8 inch long.

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Formosan Termite

Coptotermes formosanus

Formosan termite has been transported worldwide from its native range in southern China to Taiwan, Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Hawaii, and the continental United States.

Scientific name: Coptotermes formosanus

Family: Rhinotermitidae

Higher classification: Coptotermes

Order: Blattodea

Kingdom: Animalia – Infraorder: Isoptera

What Home Expert Does

Continuous Treatment Plans: With Home Expert, you receive the most reliable termite control from an industry leader. Our Continuous Protection Plans use carefully proven treatments designed for your home’s construction style, and every one of those treatments before guaranteed. You can be assured we’ll help when you can call us.

Customized Treatments: Based on the style of your home and the degree of termite infestation, Home Expert will create a termite treatment plan styled for your home.

Arid Land Subterranean Termite

Reticulitermes tibialis

The arid-land underground termite is a social insect producing a permanent underground colony. Separate castes occur in the territory, including workers, soldiers, reproductive females (queens), and reproductive males (kings). Winged reproductives initiate colonies.

Conehead Termite

Nasutitermes corniger

Originally known as the “tree termite,” the conehead termite thrives by feasting on wood. They rename it “Conehead Termites” to alleviate the misconception that this pest is only found in trees and for the cone-like shape of the heads of their soldiers.

What Home Expert Does

Continuous Treatment Plans: With Home Expert, you receive the most reliable termite control from an industry leader. Our Continuous Protection Plans use carefully proven treatments designed for your home’s construction style, and every one of those treatments before guaranteed. You can be assured we’ll help when you can call us.

Customized Treatments: Based on the style of your home and the degree of termite infestation, Home Expert will create a termite treatment plan styled for your home.

Dark Southeastern Subterranean Termite

Reticulitermes virginicus

They are up to 1/3” long and have a brown or black body. This termite usually lives in the eastern part of the United States. Swarming occurs in the summer during the day, and millions can be in the air if multiple colonies are swarming at one time.

They can also live above ground if enough moisture is present. If you have a roof or plumbing leak, take care of it as soon as possible because these termites prefer wood with an over 20% moisture rate.

What Home Expert Does

Continuous Treatment Plans: With Home Expert, you receive the most reliable termite control from an industry leader. Our Continuous Protection Plans use carefully proven treatments designed for your home’s construction style, and every one of those treatments before guaranteed. You can be assured we’ll help when you can call us.

Customized Treatments: Based on the style of your home and the degree of termite infestation, Home Expert will create a termite treatment plan styled for your home.

Desert Drywood Termite

Marginitermes Hubbard

They thrive in high temperatures with lower humidity, and the desert climate is perfect for them.  The Desert Subterranean Termite is the most common and destructive of all the desert and dry climate termites.  Their area is limited to the southwest part of the United States.

Their Adults are 3/8” long, including wings, and have a pale yellowish body.  They swarm at night from July to September during the rainy season.  This termite attracts posts, structural timber, fence, cow chips, dead weeds and grass,  and utility poles.

What Home Expert Does

Continuous Treatment Plans: With Home Expert, you receive the most reliable termite control from an industry leader. Our Continuous Protection Plans use carefully proven treatments designed for your home’s construction style, and every one of those treatments before guaranteed. You can be assured we’ll help when you can call us.

Customized Treatments: Based on the style of your home and the degree of termite infestation, Home Expert will create a termite treatment plan styled for your home.

What are the first signs of termites?

• Discoloured or drooping drywall.
• Peeling paint that resembles water damage.
• Wood that sounds hollow when tapped.
• Small, pinpoint holes in drywall.
• Buckling wooden or laminate floorboards.
• Tiles loosening from the added moisture termites can introduce to your floor.

Can termites kill you?

A termite bite won’t kill you, but it can itch, swell, burn and feel very painful, especially if you are predisposed to allergic reactions.

What are termites attracted to?

In addition to wood inside the home, termites are drawn inside by moisture, wood in contact with house foundations, and cracks in building exteriors. Different combinations of these factors attract different species. Additionally, geographic location affects how likely homeowners are to deal with infestations.

Do termites touch humans?

Although termites cause severe damage to homes around the country, they are not known to attack or bite people and pets and pose no severe health risks.

How fast can termites eat a house?

A new colony can have about 100,000 workers at the ready, but an older colony can have about 2 million termites. With about 2 million termites working in the proper condition, they can cause significant damage within the first few months. A home can destroyed in a year or two.

How do I permanently get rid of termites?

While you cannot permanently remove termites from the environment, you can help prevent them from taking root in your home and control any active colonies nearby. Although it may be tempting to try termite control yourself, prevention and treatment are best left to the professionals.

Is it okay to live in a house with termites?

Termites are not the type of pest you can ignore or simply learn to live with. They will continue to damage your home for as long as they are allowed to remain active. Over time, the termite activity will weaken the integrity of your home and open it up to even more damage.

What happens if termites go untreated?

Since many species of termites build colonies in the ground, reaching your home’s foundation and floor joists isn’t a long journey. Termites left untreated can cause such extensive damage to your foundation and the supports of your subfloor that your floors could fall apart.

Termite Control

How does termite control work?

It is a liquid termiticide that acts as bait. When termites pass through the product, they become carriers, and the queen dies; the colony dies. . Then, like a virus, the slow-acting poison works from worker to worker and eventually back to termites living in the ness.

How is pest control?

Chemical Control. The most common method of pest control is the use of pesticides—chemicals that either kill pests or inhibit their development. Pesticides are often classified according to the pest they are intended to control.

How long does termite control last?

On average, termite treatment lasts about 5 years. Liquid termite treatment can last five years or more, whereas IT must maintain termite bait stations only last one year and annually.

How to control termite infestation?

Fix leaks immediately. Keep vents free from blockage, including plants. Ensure that trees and shrubs are not planted too close to the structure and do not allow them to grow against exposed wood surfaces. Do not pile or store firewood or wood debris next to the house.

How can termites be controlled?

Some of the best ways to get rid of termites are to apply termite-killing products to your home’s exterior, use natural chemicals on the inside of your home, set up termite baits, and spray boric acid on your floors and walls.

Where do termites live in Pakistan?

Termites were surveyed in seven forests (plantations) of Punjab (Bhagat, Kamalia, Chichawatni, Changa Manga, Jallo Forest Park, Daphar and Attock) in 2008. They observed twelve termite species from the soil, dead logs, and live wood and living trees. That also identified host trees.

Will termite treatment kill other bugs?

Certain types of termite treatment, namely fumigation, may also kill other insects in your home at the time of treatment. Termite treatment will often kill pests other than termites that may be in the home at the time.

Will termite treatment kill carpenter ants?

Yes. The same pesticide used to kill termites can sometimes kill other insects, including ants.

What are termite control services?

Termite Proofing or Termite Control is to eliminate the termite problem and disintegrate its attack on your house and the precious wood materials.

What’s termite inspection?

A Home Expert has the best team to provide quality services to their customers. The inspector will look at the interior and exterior areas of your home, checking for visible signs of a termite infestation, which include: droppings, broken wings, mud tubes, and damaged wood. The inspector will check your baseboards, walls, windows, crawl spaces, door frames, insides of cabinets and closets.

Is termite control necessary?

Termites can quickly cause a devastating amount of damage to your home, resulting in costly repairs. The reality is that home termite control is essential. Taking the necessary steps for the termite inspection, control, treatment, and prevention can save you thousands of dollars in the long run.

Why is it challenging to control termites?

Termites are difficult to control because they typically eat away at your home unbeknownst to you. And, attempting to eliminate termites with DIY (Do-it-Yourself) commercial products just is not as effective as professional termite elimination treatments.

Why termite control?

Termites are beneficial to our ecosystem. However, when these little creatures invade and attack our homes, they can cause significant damage and even create an uncomfortable environment. Like any other pests, they need to contain, and the best way to do it is with the help of termite control experts.

Do termites exist in Pakistan?

Eleven out of the 53 termite species described in Pakistan are of significant threat to timber-in-service. Still, there is not much public awareness regarding what measures they may take or who to contact to safeguard their precious property against the termite attack and damage.

Are termites common in Pakistan?

In Pakistan, the most common termite species causing damage to wood and wooden structures are Coptotermes heimi (Wasmann) and Heteroterme indicola (Wasmann) and Microtermes obesi (Holmgren) and Odontotermes obesus (Rambur), Heterotermes indicolite has become a major structural pest of wood and wooden structures inside.

Do we have termites in Pakistan?

Termites cause significant economic damage to wooden structures in Pakistan, thus making termites of public interest. Eleven out of the 53 termite species described in Pakistan are of significant threat to timber-in-service.

Which termite treatment is best?

• Taurus SC: Most Popular.
• Bifen XTS: Best Fast-acting.
• Spectracide Terminate: Best Bait.
• Termidor Foam: Best Direct Chemical Treatment.
• Advanced Termite Killer: Best for DIY.

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