Drywood Termite Control in Your Home

Fumigation services will get right into every crack and crevice – even inside wood. There’s nowhere a drywood termite can hide from the fumigant, so it’s the best way to treat for drywood termites.

Drywood termites are extremely opportunistic and can find creative ways to invade your home. In warm climates, they can be brought in from outdoors. Trim all shrubs, bushes, and other dense greenery so that they do not touch the side of your home or structure. Don’t leave firewood near your home as it is a magnet for termites. If you do keep firewood outside your structure during the winter, keep it raised off the ground and protected from water if possible. Seal as many cracks, crevices, and holes in your structure as possible as they may provide an access point for termites to enter. In the northeast, they are often brought into a home from infested materials transferred to the home. Therefore, inspect all materials that are used for building as well as new furniture you’re bringing into your home.

Fumigation services will get right into every crack and crevice – even inside wood. There’s nowhere a drywood termite can hide from the fumigant, so it’s the best way to treat for drywood termites.

The size of a drywood termite ranges, depending on age, from 1/4 inch to 1 inch long. Adult drywood termites have a thicker, oval-shaped waist, short legs, and straight antennae with equal length wings. They are usually cream-white to light brown in color and have six legs. However, the most common way to identify drywood termites is by looking at their droppings, which are oval with 6 concave sides.

Drywood termites are a termite species known for thriving in hard, dry wood found inside a home. This includes structural timbers as well as furniture, picture frames, and banisters. Unlike subterranean termites, they do not need to build galleries with contact with soil for moisture – they do fine up above in dryer environments, hence the name.

Drywood termites typically swarm during the late summer or fall months, from August through November.

Drywood Termites come from dry wood habitats. Forests, suburban developments, and woodshops are some of their favorites. If they’re in your home, it’s because they’ve found uninhibited access to furniture and firewood (their favorite food). In nature, they set up shop within large, old trees. Often in the northeast, they are brought into a home inside an infested piece of lumber or furniture, often from their habitat in the south.