February 5th 2012
Perma-Chink Systems, Inc. provides tips on preserving your log cabin/home. This episode contains information regarding wood rot, termites and other wood boring beetles. Also visit www.facebook.com/pcsi200 and www.permachinknews.blogspot.com
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February 5th 2012
February 5th 2012
Termidor® is 100% effective at controlling 100% of termites in three months or less – a statement no other termite control product can make. That’s why since its introduction in 2000, pest management professionals have made Termidor America’s leading termite control, with more than one million structures treated. It’s the product’s unique “Transfer Effect™,” allowing Termidor to achieve 100% control of termite populations at the very low rate of just 0.06% active ingredient. And because Termidor is a non-repellent – undetectable to termites – the pests freely forage through treated areas, unknowingly ingesting, picking up and transferring Termidor throughout the population •A 20 oz bottle of Termidor Termiticide will make 25 gallons of finished solutions. •Apply product at a rate of 4 finished gallons per 10 linear feet. •Product will treat 62.5 linear feet of structure for termite control •This is the same active ingredient in Frontline Drops you put on your pets for fleas and ticks. •Kills all types of drywood and Subterranean and Formosan termites Termidor is now labeled to treat the following pests: •Ants (acrobat, Argentine, big-headed, carpenter, crazy, odorous, pavement, pharaoh, thief) •Asian lady and darkling beetles •Box-elder bugs •Pillbugs •Centipedes •Cockroaches (Australian, Oriental, smokey brown) •House crickets European earwigs Cluster flies •Millipedes Silverfish Spiders (black widow, brown recluse, hobo, cellar) •Brown dog ticks •Paper wasps •Yellow …
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October 26th 2011
September 21st 2011
These black carpenter ants (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) rescued pupae after the breaking of a dead branch exposed a section of their nest.
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September 16th 2011
If your home has leaks, wet areas, or high indoor humidity, carpenter ants can thrive. If you see carpenter ants in your home soon after the winter snowmelts, you may have a carpenter ant colony. Go to the basement and look at joists under the entrance doors, windows, or porches. Many times these areas have small leaks. You may have to pull back the insulation to look. If you find a small pile of sawdust, look at it carefully. If you see black, shinny specs mixed in with sawdust, carpenter ants are nearby. The main carpenter ant colony, which usually is in a tree or buried tree stump, can have many small satellite colonies of which several can be in your home. If you see flying insects with curved bodies that have two different sized wings, and two curved antenna, you have carpenter ant reproductive trying to find a new moist area in your home to start a new satellite colony. If you see many small translucent wings that are two different sizes in window wells, sills, or floors, in your house may be whispering to you and it is time to call the bug man.
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September 14th 2011
A wild colony of very large carpenter ants known as Camponotus Vicinus were found nesting underneath a rock in the spring mountains of Nevada. Due to the elevation the temperature was on the cold side causing the ants to move about sluggishly. Note the winged reproductives who have not yet flown on their nupital flight.
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August 31st 2011
While foraging for food the large red and black ants discover a mealworm and make quick work of the biting hard shelled adversary. The worm is then later fed to the larvae back inside the colony.
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August 27th 2011
August 25th 2011
