The mere mention of the word strikes fear into the heart of homeowners everywhere and with good reason. A more destructive and organized pest was never battled by exterminators. Eating constantly; 24 hours a day, 7 days a week…no vacation, no sick days… just consume, consume, consume. This has made the dreaded subterranean termite an enemy more destructive than any other insect!
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TERMITE DAMAGE
Termites come in a few different shapes and colors. The worker and soldiers are typically a yellow or off-white color, with the workers sporting an oversized head and massive jaws. Reproductive termites come in a darker brown color, which is why people often mistake them for flying ants, but have wings that are at least twice the size of their entire body. Workers and soldiers and roughly the same size, usually about a ¼ inch in size, whereas the winged reproductives are about 3/8 of an inch long. Termite queens, who can live up to 20 years if untouched, can produce anywhere between 5,000-10,000 eggs a year, and an average colony has anywhere between 60,000 and 250,000 members.
- Termites are photophobic (or afraid of light), which is why they’re most often found in darker areas of buildings and structures.
- They’ve got the most enviable work ethic of any creature on Earth, working non-stop 24 hours a day, and they do not require sleep.
- Like many insects, termite queens are considered to be a high-class delicacy in some countries, with people serving them like live squirming bug sushi, paired with sweet wines, or even dipped in chocolate.
MYTH: Termites and carpenter ants do the same amount of damage to a home.
FACT: Termites will damage a home much more swiftly and much more severely than carpenter ants. The easiest comparison to make is that termites can destroy a devastating amount of wood, where carpenter ants only do an average of a basketball-sized amount of damage (per year).
MYTH: Providing termites with a cutoff source of wood, such as a log pile or stump, in your yard will prevent them from taking interest in your house’s wood.
FACT: Often times, inspectors and technicians find that if a home has a wood pile, shed, stump, etc., near a home that termites will not only gravitate to those objects but simultaneously infest the home and the object.
Termites are most often associated with the structures they’ve built along walls, most commonly referred to as “termite tubes”, which are a combination of mud, feces and saliva. The other major indicator of a termite infestation is swarming activity in the home. This phenomenon occurs at some time between the months of April and June, usually after the first warmer, rainier day of the season in Pennsylvania. At this time, you will see a literal explosion of flying insect activity within an infested structure, mainly concentrated at where the termites have infested inside the home.
