Termites are photophobic - the tubes are to protect them against
light itself, rather than drying out. One solution is to open the
affected area to light - not often possible. Another to put sheet
metal caps on the foundation posts to stop them eating through but
mostly because they can't build a tube over a downward projecting
edge. The desert termites here, who build those wonderful air-
conditioned mounds -
http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/64492439
http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/64492437
- feed at night on dead grassy material.
The bait traps are full of a light woody material of the sort they
find irresistible and they carry it back to the nest to feed the
young, as would ants with live material.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 10/10/2007, at 10:33 PM, John Hermanson wrote:
> The way I always understood it was that termites eat the wood
> during the
> day and go back to their nest in the soil at night. So, the trick
> (and
> problem) is to get them to crawl through poison as they make
> their way
> back to the nest.
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