How to prevent and control termites at home

Termites are a type of social insect and one of the five major pests in the world. Their damage is hidden, widespread and serious. Termites can destroy buildings and building components, endanger housing safety, and damage furniture, cables, clothes, and books. When termites fly away, they can also cause panic in families and affect people's lives. It can be said to be extremely cruel and vicious. Today I will tell you how to prevent and control termites at home.

Firstly, because termites are relatively hidden, there may be tens of thousands or even millions of them living in places that people don't often pay attention to, such as the basement, walls, structural columns or ceilings of houses, making them difficult to detect and often neglected. By the time termites are discovered in a home, the damage is already difficult to deal with and the losses are already quite serious. Therefore, once signs of termite infestation are discovered, professional personnel from a professional prevention and control agency should be promptly asked to conduct scientific prevention and control, find the termite nests, and take fundamental measures to completely eliminate the harm caused by termites.

Secondly, use chemical control methods to kill termites. Commonly used methods are:

① Powder method: Use a special tool (powder spray ball) to spray some insecticide powders that have no repellent effect on termites but have a chronic stomach poison effect on a small amount of termites and the inner walls of ant tunnels where termites frequently move back and forth. Through contact between termites, the insecticide powder is brought into the ant nest and passed to the entire termite colony for poisoning. For example: 0.1% imidacloprid powder or 0.1% sulfluramid powder.

② Residual spraying method: A residual spraying insecticide with contact killing effect can be prepared into an aqueous solution and sprayed on the ant tunnels where termites often move and the surfaces around them, so that the liquid can penetrate into the surface as much as possible. Such as: 0.14% imidacloprid, 1.0% chlorpyrifos, 0.5% permethrin, 0.25% cypermethrin, 0.1% cypermethrin, 0.05% deltamethrin and other emulsions, 100ml/m2.

③ Poison bait killing method: Termites are social insects, so chemical control should be based on poison bait killing, so that termites will move the bait with good palatability and little repellent effect into the nest, poisoning the queen ant, the king ant and the young ants, thus achieving the purpose of destroying the entire nest. That is: place a certain amount of termite poison bait at ant trails, mud blankets or mud lines, colony holes and termite excrement where signs of termite activity are found. After the termites feed on them, they pass the drug to other individuals in the nest, eventually leading to the death of the entire nest. Commonly used drugs include: 1.0% chlorpyrifos, 0.1% sulfluramid, 0.1% thiosulfuronamide, 0.5~1.5% fluorosulfonamide and other poison baits. When placing poison bait, you should apply small amounts but not large amounts. In areas with severe ant infestation, place one pile of poison bait every 1 meter, 2g per pile. Observe the consumption of poison bait three days after placing the bait, replenish it in time, and pay attention to moisture-proofing.

④ Injection method: When the signs of termite activity are found in the cluster holes and ant nests, you can use 0.14% imidacloprid, 1.0% chlorpyrifos, 0.5% permethrin, 0.25% cypermethrin, 0.1% cypermethrin, 0.05% cypermethrin and other emulsions to inject into the holes or nests for poisoning.

⑤ Others: For the flying termites, you can adopt the direct spray method, such as using aerosol insecticides such as Miehei Ling and Radar to spray the flying termites to kill them; or use carbon dioxide trap lamps to kill the flying termites. However, this kind of method can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.