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The termites will continue to be a problem and seems like the companies are running them around the building instead of killing them properly. Try a baiting approach with Premise foam or similar product like Termidor SC. These are more appropriate for the situation. Go the the Univ of Cal Riverside website for more info on termite baiting and treatment. Jim Harmon Califorrnia Pest Management, inc. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larissa Busch Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 1:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [pestlist] Subterranean Termites This is a message from the Pest Management Database List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi, We currently have an infestation of subterranean termites. This occurred last year as well and after bringing in 5 extermination companies, it seemed like each company gave us different recommendations. Some wanted to do a full perimeter treatment but even they were a bit hesitant on the efficiency because of the size of our building (~ 195,000 sq ft) and some restrictions on drilling on the front side of our building. Others said the perimeter treatment would be a waste of money as it would have no affect on the ones that were coming up pretty much in the middle of the building. We decided to just do a spot treatment of the areas rather than a perimeter treatment. But this year they not only came up in one of the same locations but have now gotten into one of our galleries. It really seems like our only options are to continue only spot treating and dealing with the problem each year or trying the perimeter treatment and hope it works, but it costs a lot of money. Has anyone else dealt with subterranean termites in their facility? Have you done perimeter treatments, either drilling and using pesticide or the bait system? Any recommendations? Is this just a problem we are going to have to treat each year as we find them? Thanks, Larissa Busch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Larissa Busch Collections Technician Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History University of Oklahoma 2401 Chautauqua Avenue Norman, Oklahoma 73072-7029 phone 405-325-2828 www.snomnh.ou.edu ------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email [email protected]
