Comments on: How Can It Be A ‘Good’ Termite Season?

By: Ion Staunton

Ion Staunton — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 03:10:11 +0000

In reply to Gerry Maas. Yes Gerry, even though the chemical that stops termites moulting is not harmful, it stays inside the termite nest once carried back there. Ion

By: Ion Staunton

Ion Staunton — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 03:08:03 +0000

In reply to Lionel.

The birds and chooks will love you and lay great eggs for you forever!

Yes there will be some perplexed and puzzled stragglers coming back from the food sources to where the nest once was. If there are no more found after another week or two then ‘stragglers’ is the diagnosis. If you keep finding termites (say in the leaf litter or mulch) after this next couple of weeks, the probability is another nest somewhere. Can I assume you have checked any hollow trees? — Always prime suspects.
Ion

By: Lionel

Lionel — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 04:35:13 +0000

Good stuff Ion, I always read your posts,I found a very large below ground termite nest the other day, and destroyed it, there was a hole about 3 feet deep and about the same across by the time I had finished, with millions of termites, that the chooks and wild birds dined on over a number of days, but I have found live termites since then, I don’t know if they are left over from the nest I destroyed, or are they from another colony

By: Gerry Maas

Gerry Maas — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:20:04 +0000

Thank you as always very interesting reading we try to keep all chemicals to a min.
Regards Gerry