Termites!

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In a message dated 02/04/2001 10:33:12 PM Central Standard Time, 
purdy@oak.cats.ohiou.edu writes:


> Terry,
> 
> Termites build mud tubes up from the ground to the wood.  If termites are
> active there will be mud tubes about the size of a pencil going to the
> piano.  They would be under the piano and maybe hard to see but they have
> to be there or it is old damage.  If you see these tubes, break them open
> and if you see little white bugs, that's your boys.  If you move the piano,
> the termites cannot "go home" and it is my understanding that they cannot
> live without that access to the ground.
> 
> I have never had to deal with termites in a piano but my father owned a
> pest control business and when I was young I spent summers at war with
> termites.  When a house was treated for termites back then, they didn't
> really kill all the bugs.  They live and travel underground and you can't
> get to them.  What you do is put a chemical barrier between them and the
> house so they can't come up.  The house where your piano is needs to be
> treated and that will take care of the ones in the piano.  They can't
> survive without going back underground.  Chances are they are in other
> parts of the house and the piano may be the least of the owners concerns.
> Also, don't sweat the eggs.  The queen lives underground and lays all the
> eggs there.
> 
> Things have changed alot since I did this kind of work.  I belive the
> chemical we used then isn't even legal to use now.  What I have seen
> recently is where people put little "bait" traps at about 3-6 foot
> intervals in the ground around the house.  The workers get the bait and
> take it back to the nest underground where it slowly poisons the whole hee
> haw gang.
> 
> chris
> 
> -Christopher D. Purdy R.P.T.
> -School of Music, Ohio University
> -Athens, OH  45701
> -mailto:purdy@ohio.edu
> -(740) 593-1656 office
> -(740) 593-1429 fax
> 
> 
> 

Chris, you are ablolutely correct except for drywood termites which need no 
contact with soil.  These termites are self contained in there wood of choice 
and need no contact with the outside world.
David Koelzer
DFW

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