Termites
Answers about the signs of termites, swarms, flying ants and inspections for buying or selling a home. If you're not sure what you're seeing, start with a free termite inspection.
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Signs of Termites in Your Home
Termites work out of sight, so almost every sign you can see is indirect: pencil-wide mud tubes on foundation walls and floor joists, shed wings on windowsills and along the edges of floors, wood hollowed out along the grain with soil in the tunnels, and rippled or sunken patches behind wall coverings. Any one of them is worth an inspection, and because termites damage wood slowly, you have time to arrange one properly.
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Termite Swarm Season in Kentucky and Southern Illinois
In Kentucky, termite swarmers usually show up between March and May, depending on temperature and rainfall, often on a sunny day after rain. In Illinois, most swarms happen in spring, but they can happen in most warm months. Swarmers inside a home almost always mean an infestation, so get a termite inspection.
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Flying Ants vs Termites: How to Tell Them Apart
Look at the antennae, the waist and the wings. Termite swarmers have straight antennae, a thick waist and two pairs of wings the same length, while flying ants have bent antennae, a pinched waist and front wings longer than the back wings. Termite swarmers inside a home almost always mean the house has termites, so get an inspection.
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What Is a WDI Inspection? A Home Buyer's Guide
A WDI inspection is a check for visible evidence of wood-destroying insects, termites most of all, made when a home is being bought or refinanced. The inspector records what can be seen on the day of the inspection, and the results are reported on Form NPMA-33. It tells you what the evidence showed that day. It is not a statement that a home has no termites.
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Crawl Space Moisture Problems Are Pest Problems
A damp crawl space is a pest problem before it is anything else. Moisture is what makes the space liveable for termites, carpenter ants, damp-wood beetles and the crawling insects that want somewhere cool and wet to sit, which is why treating the insects without dealing with the water only buys time. You cannot treat your way out of a moisture source, so the moisture is the actual job.
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