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Help, any one can help me in termite control?

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i'm thinking that termites are just a wood eating ant, red ant killer for prevention. they must be able to return to the ground to live but feed within the wooden drumstick they are eating away.. once they have your home or garage, I've seen termite professionals put a tent around an entire building and gass it for a couple days. never had it done first hand but termites are a problem everywhere..
 

Cannabis

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Water based insecticides and those foggers too. Contrive to get the insecticide inside the tunnels, and inside the raw, un-invaded wood.

There is a place online I cannot remember the name, that sells home use pesticides that exterminators are allowed to get. Turns out that in nearly every if not all the different states, an exterminator doesn't actually have a license for the chemicals he gets.

There might be some coast states that don't allow everyone to buy the identical stuffs exterminators do but it's not the majority. I found out about this from one of those home self help forum places just randomly surfing one night, and went to the most popular website with the lowest prices, I can not for the life of me remember the name of it but I betcha you can google it with a little creative thinking.

I think what everyone pretty much does is the same things the exterminators can do, you just learn how to use the product, and then serve as your own laborer as well, I read about it several hours one night, on different home self help forums.
 

mellowfellow

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Look into a product called (termidor sc). It is good for termites, ants and roaches. It is a non repellant, they don't even know they're getting into it. The ones that do spread it to the ones that don't. It is not a contact kill and can take up to a few weeks to kill the colony, but works like a champ.
 

Cannabis

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I just looked up termidor sc, and the first place with a return on google was the place I was talking about earlier.

It's called 'DoYourOwnPestControl dot com and they have got an e.n.o.r.m.o.u.s. inventory of pesticides.
 

waveguide

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pest dude gave me some shit called optigard which is supposedly all safe for people, works on termites.

lot of normal stuff i reckon would work, eg. systemic neem. fumey stuff might not be so effective since they're inside stuff and might not feel encouraged to move around.


roaches - roaches are attracted to water. and sex hormones, for real. stop having intercourse, towel out the shower, no roaches.
 

Saltlife

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bug blaster
bifenthrin 2.4
Mix 6 capfulls in a gallon of water
pour about a cup or two around stalk

U will not have termites ive been usimg it for bout
5 years
outdoors
Use it once a month
 

Cannabis

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You can feed them antibiotics. The thing I see recommended is get some tetracycline from the fish store, and put it on some cardboard, then bury that or lay a piece of wood on it, having soaked the cardboard in the tetracycline, (and the guy I saw said) put some borax in it, too: in the water.

However there IS a BAIT you make with this and to these two things you add some sugar.

MOST people recommend right around 8 or 9 teaspons, to one- of sugar, to borax. This bait, is then soaked into cardboard and placed under somethin, a larger board, or whatever,

and also they discuss digging holes in the ground and placing the baited cardboard in the ground.

Another place I saw said boil the wood, in the sugar water with the borax.

The tetracycline is actually a different method ONLY for termites, whereas the borax bait's supposed to work well alone. Also I didn't check whether you can boil the tetracycline.

Anyway, by far the cheapest thing is borax and sugar. You have to soak cardboard then either bury it or place it under something but it's a task that you should make easy on yourself because you're going to be doing it again.

For the roaches, you should mix up borax into peanut butter and put that bait out. Some of the ants will eat that too.

Generally O.P, you should google 'borax insecticide' and stuff like that. Borax/sugar baits to attract one type feeding bugs, and borax/peanut butter for another type,

will draw and kill a wide variety of things.
 

Crusader Rabbit

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Feeding termites tetracycline is a fascinating idea. the workers would take it back and feed it to the whole colony. They have a symbiotic relationship with bacteria in their guts which break down the cellulose in their diet. Without those cellulose processing bacteria, termites will starve. We already have enough loose antibiotics in our environment though.

I know that the sugar-borax solution is used in ant bait, but am unsure if borax treated cardboard would be eaten by termites. Borax is used as a termite repellant in lumber.
 

Cannabis

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Apparently it's a common thing to treat wood and cardboard, I haven't made termite traps like that though.

The tetracycline comes from the pet store, it's for fish. At least I think that's what they're doing.


Feeding termites tetracycline is a fascinating idea. the workers would take it back and feed it to the whole colony. They have a symbiotic relationship with bacteria in their guts which break down the cellulose in their diet. Without those cellulose processing bacteria, termites will starve. We already have enough loose antibiotics in our environment though.

I know that the sugar-borax solution is used in ant bait, but am unsure if borax treated cardboard would be eaten by termites. Borax is used as a termite repellant in lumber.
 

Mongo1974

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bug blaster
bifenthrin 2.4
Mix 6 capfulls in a gallon of water
pour about a cup or two around stalk

U will not have termites ive been usimg it for bout
5 years
outdoors
Use it once a month

How far away from the base do you apply the bug blaster?
 
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