Avoiding termite troubles

Precautions:

Termite control can be done with liquid termiticides, termite bait stations, or both. Liquid Termiticides are fast acting, can be applied closer to the infestation, require less maintenance, and require small to no ongoing costs. Termite Bait Systems are less intrusive, no drilling or trenching is needed, no expensive equipment is required, and bait systems can help you identify a problem before the termites reach your home.

• Avoiding contact of susceptible timber with ground by using termite-resistant concrete , steel or masonry foundation with appropriate barriers. Even so, termites are able to bridge these with shelter tubes, and it has been known for termites to chew through piping made of soft plastics and even lead to exploit moisture. In general, new buildings should be constructed with embedded physical termite barriers so that there are no easy means for termites to gain concealed entry. While barriers of poisoned soil have been in general use since the 1970s, it is preferable that these be used only for existing buildings without effective physical barriers.
  
  
• The intent of termite barriers (whether physical, poisoned soil or some of the new poisoned plastics)is to prevent the termites from gaining unseen access to structures. In most instances, termites attempting to enter a barriered building will be forced into the less favourable approach of building shelter tubes up the outside walls and thus they be clearly visible both to the building occupants and a range of predators. Regular inspection by a competent person is the best defense.
  
  
• Timber treatment.
  
  
• Use of timber that is naturally resistant to termites such as Canarium australianum known as the Turpentine Tree, Callitris glacophylla , the White Cypress or one of the Sequoias . Note that there is no tree where species every individual tree yields timber that is immune to termite damage, so that even with well known termite-resistant timber types, there will occasionally be pieces that are attacked.

When termites have already penetrated a building, removing their means of access and destroying the colony with insecticides are usually effective means of stopping further damage. Feeder stations (baits) with small quantities of disruptive insect hormones or other very slow acting toxins have become the preferred least-toxic management tool in most western countries. This has replaced the dusting of toxins direct into termite tunnels which had been widely done since the early 1930's (originating in Australia ). The main dust toxicant have been the inorganic metallic poison arsenic trioxide and, more recently, the insect growth regulator, Triflumuron. These slow-acting poisons can be distributed by the workers for considerable periods (hours to weeks) before any symptoms occur and are capable of destroying the entire colony. More modern variations include chlorfluazuron and hexaflumuron as bait toxicants and fipronil and imidacloprid was soil poisons. Soil poisons are the least-preferred method of control.

GROUND TREATMENT

Aim to to give chemical barrier among/between building construction and ground so that protect building of white ants attack. Pursuant to its application time, treatment of ground can be done with two way of that is: Pre-Construction and of Post-Construction.

Pre-Construction Treatment
Application of Termiticide conducted before or at the (time) of building [is] awaking up.

Condensation of Termiticide with concentration 20 - 25 ml / water lt.

Douche or dig take bath / foundation hole flattened with condensation of Termiticide with dose 5 liter per m2.	Spray or Douche foundation both sides take bath flattened with condensation of Termiticide with dose 5 liter per m2.
Dig ground to wear to pile up [is] also sprayed or sprinkled wet so that and flatten, [is] later; then reentered into woke up foundation hole.	Before floor made, entire/all surface of ground to be attached floor sprinkled with condensation of Termiticide with dose 5 liter per m2.

Post-Construction Treatment
Pre-Construction Application of Termiticide after building have been woke up. Condensation of TERMITICIDE with concentration 20 - 25 ml / lt water.

Make hole drilled [at] two sides as long as foundation with distance 30 - 40 cm and deepness of hole 20 - 30 cm. While distance between hole with wall 15 cm. To avoid to damage, use eye drill special for the concrete of concrete / tiling.	Condensation injection of Termiticide by using power sprayer with dose 2.0 liter of per hole. Cover return hole with cement matching with floor color.

PICKLING OF WOOD

a. Dipping Dye and soak wood in basin of Dipping with condensation of TERMITICIDE. Concentration Condensation : 2,5 - 25 ml /lt water ground oil / diesel fuel. Old [of] minimum dipping 30 minute.	b. Spraying Spray entire/all surface of wet wood so that and flatten with condensation of TERMITICIDE. Concentration Condensation : 2,5 - 25 ml /lt water ground oil / diesel fuel.
c. Spraying Invest entire/all surface of wood with wet paintbrush so that and flatten with condensation of TERMITICIDE. Concentration Condensation : 2,5 - 25 ml /lt water ground oil / diesel fuel	d. Method of Vacuum Depress ( pressure vacuum ) Concentration of condensation of TERMITICIDE is 2,5 - 25 ml / lt irrigate with vacuum 60 cmHg during 30 minute and pressure 10 \ atm so that yielded by retention 2,29 kg / m3.

Plant defences against termites
Many plants have developed effective defences against termites and in most ecosystems there is an obervable balance between the growth of plants and the feeding of termites. Typically defence is achieved by secreting into the woody cell walls, antifeedant chemicals (such as oils , resins and lignins ) which reduce the ability of termites to efficiently digest the cellulose. Many of the strongly termite resistant tree species have heartwood timber that is extremely dense (such as Eucalyptus camaldulensis )due to accretion of these resins. Over the years there has been considerable research into these natural defensive chemicals with scientists seeking to add them to timbers from susceptible trees. A commercial product, "Blockaid TM ", has been developed in Australia which uses a range of plant extracts to create a paint-on non-toxic termite barrier for buildings. In 2005, a group of Australian scientists "discovered" (announced) a treatment based on an extract of a species of Eremophila that is repellent termites [3] . Tests have shown that termites are strongly repelled by the toxic material to the extent that they will starve rather than cross treated samples and when kept in close proximity to the extract become disoriented and eventually die. These scientists hope to use this toxic compound commercially to prevent termite feeding.

Ecologically, termites are important in nutrient recycling, habitat creation, soil formation and quality and, particularly the winged reproductives, as food for countless predators . The role of termites in hollowing timbers and thus providing shelter and increased wood surface areas for other creatures is critical for the survival of a large number of timber-inhabiting species. Globally termites are found roughly between 50 degrees North & South, with the greatest biomass in the tropics and the greatest diversity in tropical forests and Mediterranean shrublands. Termites are also considered to be a major source of atmospheric methane , one of the prime greenhouse gases . Termites have been common since at least the Cretaceous period.