Top 3 Warning Signs your Home Has Termites

Hello World!  Welcome Friends!  Are you concerned that you might have termites in your home, or maybe you think that you could have them? Well today I’m going to go through the top three warning signs you’re going to see if you have termites in your home.

One thing to understand is that termites can be very difficult to spot if you have issues in your home, and it’s very important to get a pest control company involved if you do run into termites. Also be sure to have your home regularly inspected for termites as well, because again a lot of these warning signs you might see, but at the same time if you see them it might be too late. There might be a lot of damage already done.

Now termites do actually billions of dollars of damage every single year within Australia, so again once they get in you really want to get them out quick. What happens as well is one of the biggest problems with termite issues is that for the most part where they do damage is more often than not hidden throughout your home.

So you might not see the warning signs right away, and again like I said if you do it might be too late because they could be doing damage as well, but the sooner you get them out the better, because as I’ve said, they do thousands of dollars of damage routinely. So getting rid of them early is key. An experienced exterminator can identify and eliminate a termite infestation before it gets out of hand. However, it is still important to also be aware of the warning signs yourself.

First thing that you really want to look for, one top warning sign is discarded wings. You actually might not know it, but termites do have wings. They just get rid of them right away. So what happens is they’ll go from one colony, or one nest, or one area and then they’re going to fly to another.

Usually it’s not too far away, but what happens is once they land and they decide they’re going to build a new colony, they actually get rid of their wings. So they discard them, they leave them behind, because they’re never going to need them again. Right? They’re just going to focus on building that new colony, that new location, that new home so they get rid of their wings.

It’s interesting, they actually do it in a single file basis as termites go from one place to another. So you’re going to probably see a big stack of wings that they’re discarding as they’re burrowing in and creating a new home. So that’s one warning sign you want to be on the lookout for is discarded wings from termites.

Now, another key factor you want to lookout for and a key warning sign is going to be mud tubes. An interesting thing that you might not know about termites is they have very thin skin. What happens is they can dehydrate and dry out very easily. They really need to live in a super humid environment. Again, a lot of times this is why you’re going to see termite issues more so in the Northern states such as Queensland, rather than southern states, but you can still obviously get them in different areas as well.

What happens is they need to live in a very humid environment. So for the most part people really experience termite issues in their foundations, in their gardens or within the framework of the home itself. That’s usually where termite issues start, and then they can move throughout your home from there, because they need to be in that humid environment. If they aren’t they can die very quickly.

What they’ll do is they’ll create these mud tubes, and they’re basically tunnels that they can travel through that kind of maintains that humid environment for them and to keep them safe. So if you see these mud tubes, again, along your foundation, they’re going to be about pencil sized and just little brown tubes going around your house.

What happens … This doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re active right now, but there’s a simple way that you can check and see if there are termites active in these mud tubes. You just want to break off the middle of the tube. So either termites are going to start coming out of that tube, or you can check back in a day or so and see if that tube has been rebuilt, because again if it has the only way that that’s going to happen is if termites are active and rebuilt that tunnel, that mud tube there as well.

It’s going to help transport them from their nest to different food locations, and back through their home. Again, if you’re seeing these that’s a sure warning sign that you might have termites in your home. Again, if you’re seeing these, you suspect any activity, for sure reach out to a pest control service, because like I said they can do lots of damage.

The third warning sign is almost the hardest to spot, but it’s one of the most common ones. That’s going to be wood damage itself. Now, termites feed on this wood, they burrow through it to look for food sources. What happens is it can actually weaken the structures of a home. They can drill little holes in it, they burrow little tunnels throughout it. It can look almost like mazes throughout the wood. The big problem though is that for the most part it’s hidden behind your wall. So you might not really know it’s there.

Hopefully these pointers help.

If you have specific pest needs, you want to setup a prevention program, or again in this case maybe you want to have your home inspected for termites, get in touch with us at Pest-Ex. We’ve been providing termite protection and treatment services for more than a decade.

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