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                                         Termites 

 
We offer Free Termite Inspections for Home Owners: 
Termite experts all agree that you should have your home inspected once a year. Termite damage can emerge seemingly overnight, and you need to keep on top of any new Termite activity. 
Call Tex Pest Patrol for your free Termite Inspection     

A Few Facts About Termites:
  • Termites cause an estimated $1 billion worth of property damage each year, infesting about one home in 50 nationwide.
  • Termites do more damage than all fires, hurricanes and tornadoes combined.
  • Termites work steadily, quietly and invisibly around the clock,  24 / 7 / 365 days a year.
  • Worker termites are blind and never know when to quit.  Many times a home has been infested for years before their presence becomes known.
  • Termites live long lives.  Every termite colony has a queen which may live from 15 to 30 years, laying hundreds of eggs each day.  Any number of colonies may infest a home.


    Common Termite Varieties in Texas include:
  • Dampwood Termites inhabit the moist costal and mountain areas, nesting in dead tree limbs, utility poles, fence posts, firewood and homes.  Dampwood termites seek moisture from the soil, and may attack a house at any level.
  • Drywood Termites are found most often in upper framing and exterior wood such as eaves, door frames and wood siding.  Many can enter the hidden framing while under construction.  Needs no soil contact.  Nesting habits are similar to the Dampwood Termite.
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  • Subterranean Termites are found most often attacking the home's framing and understructure from  nests found in the soil and beneath crawl spaces.  Termites are capable of penetrating cracks in concrete as small as 1/64th of an inch wide.  Subterranean Termites build tubes above ground and over obstacles (such as termite barriers) to gain access to your home.

    • Signs of Infestation:
    The more obvious signs of termite infestation include:
  • Wall cracks or blistered areas on a floor, wall, window frame, joist or stud.
  • Narrow mud tubes along the  foundation of the house.
  • Piles of seed-like pellets along a wall or window frame. 
  • Termite swarms in or near a building, or cast-off wings from flying termites.
  • Flying termites do not cause damage, but their offspring do.  Termites swarm only once or twice a year, usually only for a few hours on a sunny day following a period of rain, (Termites may be confused with flying ants.  Termites have tubular bodies and elbowed antennae.)

As the old saying goes:          
  • There are only two kinds of homes in Texas, homes with Termites and homes that will have Termites.