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Welcome to our blog, Genzano it story
and this post, how to defend our homes from these pests
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How to defend our homes from these pests
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How to defend our homes from these pests
The white ant problem
How to defend our homes from these pests
Dear readers, this post is the continuation
of our last post, these wooden houses need some care, where we were telling you
my life story and about these wooden houses that we found in Australia. We were
saying that there are pests that destroys the houses, and we were asking
ourselves what could be done. There are a few things that we can do to prevent
these pests destroy our homes; the first thing that one has to do is to check
that there is a barrier that stops the white ants to enter your building, for
instance if your house is a high-set house on stumps, check that at the top of
the stumps there is a metallic ant-capping; this metallic ant capping is
usually a large galvanized round dish or square of metal and it is bent down at
the edges so that any crawling insect will find it difficult to enter your
house that way; we hope you can see the picture? The ant capping prevents also
the white ants to enter through the timber stump itself, if the stump has been
infested with white ants, because when they reach the top of the stump they
cannot eat through the metal capping and so they are stopped entering that way,
of course there are a lot of different buildings and a lot of different ways to
set a barrier; but sometimes the white ants find their way around.
Now there are ways that one should be looking
for if there are white ants; here the first thing that we have to keep in mind
is that white ants eat everything from inside and they don’t like to be exposed
outside for long, so, the first thing one can do is to tap on anything that is
made of wood; if the wood sounds hollow then the white ants might have eaten
the inside, so, a complete check is needed to see what is the cause; another
way to look for white ants signs is that if they are forced to go outside to
move from one place to another, they will construct a tunnel, so that they can
go up and down without being seen, so, one has to look for these signs anywhere
under the building: Now some expert has told me that what happens here is that
the white ants need moisture, so, they have to travel to the ground to get the
moisture and then they go up again their tunnel to eat the timber; now if the
building is solid and there is no other way for the ants to go up they will
construct their tunnel from the ground up, so, we should be looking for signs
to see if there are ants tunnel constructed, and if there are tunnels, it means
that there are white ants also, therefore you need a pest control expert to
poison these pests, and you need him fast.
Some natural enemies of the white ants
White ants have very few enemies because they
live and hide inside the timber, but there are some natural enemies of course
in their natural habitat, a couple of which are pictured here. As I said
before, one needs to learn the signs how to spot the white ants presence, and
do something if you find that they are there, otherwise they could eat your
house away pretty quickly.
Here under we have pasted two links about
termites that other Huber’s have written for you to check them out.
Good luck to all houses owner!
Dear readers, our intention here is that we
are going to write several hubs and talk about houses, how to own them, how to
maintain them and how to build them, because that is what I have done during my
life; so, even though in our next hub will be talking about: is Australia the
land of opportunities, we will be talking about the opportunities that I had in
the house building industry, when I came to Australia.
So, see you soon in our next hub.
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Genzano it story
How to defend our homes from white ants
IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, Australia the land of opportunity
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Genzano it story
How to defend our homes from white ants
IS GOING TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, Australia the land of opportunity
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