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Okay, so for the $100,000 question, what termite do you have? Well, in this case, the what’s behind me here is, these are dry wood termite pellets or droppings that they leave behind. It is what they do. So drive with termite is is can survive only on a dry piece of wood. It does not need any type of moisture to survive. But because of that, it is often times thought to be doesn’t do as much damage as as a subreddit for maintenance, because it moves much, much slower, because if it moves too fast, because it’s only living off a dry piece of wood, then it will dehydrate, is basically what would happen. So they are very, very methodical and slow moving when they start now. So when you got two termites for for dry wood termites, over a five year period of time, then you have 500 termites. Now that sounds like a lot of bugs, but a colony of subterranean termites are is known to be 60,000 to several million. So 500 is not a lot but, but that will start to really snowball as the colony gets older, it’s going to have more termites in the colony. Will do more damage. But the big thing is, you’re going to have a swarm at that five year mark, and when they swarm, now you have multiple colonies, and that process will start all over again. And so if you have an older home that is in an old neighborhood, and those swarms have been taken, taking place for many, many years, then what you’re basically looking at is is that you could have dozens, if the hundreds of colleagues, and more than that, if they, if they go unchecked and then looked at or, or somebody doesn’t find, oh, I saw that every year. I saw nothing that, yeah, you’re gonna have a a situation. Oh, by the way, I’m Coby, Coby;s pest control, you know, Tampa, Clearwater St Pete area, but the but you’re going to have moon work happen. So if you’re seeing this, then I would highly recommend have an inspection. Pause out. Let’s see what you have. And is it one spot or 10 spots, you’re going to pretty well. I mean, unless you just ignore things, you’re going to pretty well. Know if there’s an issue, there’s a problem, when you start seeing these come out, the next thing that you would see would be wings. So you would actually see traumatic wings. And I’ll do another video about different signs of termites that will show you kind of what you’re what you’re looking for. But this is the first thing that most people will see before they see anything else is something now, it could be any color. It could be multiple color. It could be like a salt and pepper effect, and just because you see a color doesn’t mean anything. And I’ll do it. I do a video on that as well, as far as the what the colors mean. So we’ll talk about those things. But the the, the main thing is, if you see something that looks like coffee grounds or sawdust or anything along those just call us. We’ll be happy to come out. Tell you what’s going on. Coby’s Tentless Termite, remember, as long as God keeps making them, we’ll keep killing you. Have a great day.
