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> stopping termites from entering the building. Do the termites in your location not fly? In Fiji we have termite swarms once a year. Millions of them will sho
by markdown 7y ago
> stopping termites from entering the building.
Do the termites in your location not fly? In Fiji we have termite swarms once a year. Millions of them will show up at every light they can get to in the evenings. Everyone is advised to turn off their lights for a few hours and light a fire outside so as to get the termites to kamikazi. These are the Asian Subterranean Termites that arrived here via Australia.
Pesticide in a ditch around a house isn't going to stop these buggers.
- Gibbon1 7y agoThe idea is the poison kills them if they set up a nest next to the foundation.
- dd36 7y agoSubterranean termites.
- basicplus2 7y agoTermites only fly when a colony has reached a limit on number, and pairs fly off to start new colonies. unless they start a new colony inside the barrier, the barrier is still effective.
- markdown 7y agoThe barrier is only affective against burrowing, but termites don't start new colonies by burrowing. They swarm (usually once annually)... fly off and build new colonies. If only the method described here actually worked, we'd save billions of dollars a year in damage.
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