Pencil-width earth tunnels crossing bare concrete. The species that builds these does the structural damage, and it leaves no frass to warn you.
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Diameter and shape narrow it to a family before anything else. Round, oval or slot, powder or none, and whether the hole is an entrance or an exit.
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Six-sided pellets poured from a kick-out hole mean drywood termites. Subterranean termites produce no frass at all, and that absence is the useful half.
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They sit deep inside the colony, so a sighting means a gallery has been opened. What people find instead, and the evidence that actually matters.
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You found small holes and a dusting of powder in a wooden beam, and the first question is whether you are looking at a cosmetic nuisance or a structural emergency. Here is the fast way to settle it. Powderpost beetles and termites both tunnel in wood, but they leave very different evidence: powderpost beetles bore
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You found termites in a beam, killed the few you could see, and assumed you had bought yourself some time. You did not, and the reason is the colony itself. A termite colony is a caste society, and that is exactly why it is so hard to kill: the workers chewing your wood make up
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You found a cluster of winged insects at a sunny window, or a pile of shed wings on the sill, and the first question is whether it matters. It does. A swarm of winged termites inside your home means a mature colony is already established in or right against the structure and is releasing reproductives
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You found termite damage, or maybe just a strange tube of dried mud on the foundation, and now you need a name before you spend a cent. Here is the part that matters most: the type of termite dictates the entire treatment, so identify it first. Subterranean termites live in the soil and build pencil-thin
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If you think you might have termites, the hard part is that you almost never see the insects; you see the evidence they leave behind. Termites work inside wood and underground, so you confirm them by the signs, not the bug: pencil-width mud tubes climbing the foundation, little piles of discarded swarmer wings on a
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The real question behind termite treatment cost is not DIY versus professional. It is how far the termites have spread. A handful of DIY products cost tens of dollars and genuinely earn their place on spot treatment, monitoring, and prevention. A professional soil barrier or bait system costs far more because it protects the whole
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