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Coby here with Coby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control. Today, we’re going to be talking about termites on the beach. So in Pinellas County, we have some most beautiful beaches in the world. And I’m just saying that that’s that’s consistently or voted some of the best beaches in the world. Don’t believe me. Come on down your level. But so do the termites, just as well. So a lot, and I give it a lot of homes that are on the water, near the water, I say near the water. I guess being Pinellas County is a peninsula, all of us are near the water. So much activity that we get in all these areas. And the the main reason, I believe it is, is that you have the humidity just stays in such a perpetual state that this is perfect for Central Florida’s tons of tons of both subterranean and dry wood, termites, vaginal termites, especially. And so if you’re on the beach and you would think you might have a problem, you want to get somebody out there pretty quick so they can, they can identify and then treat it as necessary. If you are in a we’ll cover that subject next, actually, not for my next next video.
We’ll be covering a thing about condos and townhouses. But any, anybody that’s that’s either on the water or within spit distance of the water, it is so common for us to see people made a beach, Indian rock. St, Pete, Clearwater. St, key, you name. It just doesn’t matter if you’re on the beach, any of those, those red shores or so on, just tons and tons of activity with termites in those areas. Fortunately, we so common for us. I mean, we do a really good job of of controlling them and preventing them. Which fumigations are not able to do, they’ll control them, but they don’t prevent them, and they’re going to swarm in year after year after year after year after year. So if you’re just putting a band aid on them when they fumigate, then they’re coming back. I mean, they’re coming back the next year, actually. And the reason I say that is is because, if you think about it, Germany’s going to swarm every single year. And as communities get older, and the beaches have been had communities on them for over 100 years. As the community get older, older trees, older homes, older wood piles, older fences, older whatever. And so they’re going to swarm each each colony will swarm.
And on the day they swarm, did the wind blow towards your house and go away from the house, and they’re going to swarm the termites usually, season is usually the last 6990 days, so even if only half the time the wind blowed blew towards your house. So that’s that’s 30 to 45 days that you’ve got termites that have hit your helmet, and very high likelihood that they’ve already gotten back in and it’s just because the auto fumigation kills. There’s no residual. It doesn’t it doesn’t prevent anything. So if next time they take a bite, they just start at it, whereas if you have a proper tetanus treatment with multiple products and take a bite and they die.
And that’s really what you’re you’re looking to go ahead and do when possible. Now, there are situations we’ve been in what we tell them you’re going to have to fumigate. It just doesn’t make sense to use our service. But that’s becoming few and far between. But, but it’s not uncommon for us to recommend a fumigation when necessary. But yeah, on the beaches, tons of stuff. So if you even think you have something just there’s a call, we love to come out, take a look, see if there’s something we can help you with what we do. So if you have a question about this or anything else, please give us a call and and always remember, as long as God keeps making it, we’ll keep killing them. You have a great day.
