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We’re back talking today about how many termite colonies Can you have in one home? Well, if you’re talking about subterranean termites there’s the thought that there’s probably one very large colony and there could be several 100,000 to several million termites in a subterranean termite colony under the house. And the good thing about that is, honey, the good thing about that is, is that you are when you treat the home, that one colony could, because they’re communicating back and forth, when they get into the products that we put down for for to control the termites, it spreads to the entire colony, not surmounted, gone. With dry wood termites, each place that you see, a pile is a high probability, it’s a completely separate colony, they’re not attached. So you could have one in the winter, so you can have an indoor, you can have cabinets, you know, multiple in the attics, all these places, you can have them and they would be completely separate colonies. And why this is important is that as the the termite colony gets older, usually around five years, it will, it will have enough product in the economy that it can sustain swarming elites reproductive termites leaving the colony and forming their own new colony. So at the five year mark, you have say 500, termites, at the six year mark starts to snowball, you get in this one colony over here. Now you go ahead and have another colony, it takes five years to get going. The next and there can be multiple times that you can literally having a massive snowball effect, and have dozens, if not hundreds of colonies. And if it goes on check, 1000s of colonies that are completely separate that are not attached to one another. And so if you’re treating a spot, because then you think that’s where they’re at, that’s not going to get the job done, you have to treat the whole house. And our particular type of treatment we do we treat the house, attic crawlspace as wall voids, doors, windows, whatever, wherever the wood is where the termite can be, we treat it and we also try to prevent them getting in any further. Even though they may get in, they’re not going to populate because they have something that they’re going to take a bite die you’re doing, at least with the products we use now. If you have a fumigation. It lasts for about five seconds. And I don’t say that facetiously in, jokingly it literally lasts for five seconds. And the reason you have to be able to go back into the home, in order to go ahead and clear it and be safe. Well should you can go back and that means there’s no insecticide or anything in the wood or in the air. And so that you’re looking at the termites come right back. And when you have termite season, we call termite season, can last two to three months. Those swarms are going to happen every day. And on the day they happen to the wind blow towards your house or to blow away from the house. So if you treat it and then the wind blows towards your house the next day, literally, you can have the infestation start all over again, that you won’t see that for five and sometimes even 10 years, depending on where in the house, the homeless that’s at, but they’re eating the entire time. So you can have many many many dozens hundreds, it just depends on how long goes untreated. Most people take care but once you start to see three five colonies they they start to see activity they take care of but some people don’t or if you have older homes with plaster walls, well they’re don’t necessarily eat to the plaster. So if you’re not seeing swarms, you’re not seeing pellets you don’t normally spend anyways. That being said, hopefully this video helpful and always remember, as long as God keeps picking, we’ll keep telling him you have a great day.
