Streator Property Owners' Ultimate Termite Control Guide

What Every Streator Property Owner Should Know About Termites

• If you see worker termites, you're lucky. It doesn't happen very often.
• When you see a dozen termites on a branch, you should know that there are a lot more inside that branch. It is also likely that, just below the ground, are hundreds of thousands of termites.
• When a termite colony is feeding on branches in your yard, they can also be feeding on your back deck, your wood fence, your shed, and your home.
• If you pick branches up and store them in a pile to be burned, you won't get rid of all the termites in your yard when you burn those branches. Only a fraction of the termites will be in this ideal food source. And, even if every worker termite in the colony found its way into your brush pile, the queen can easily produce more termite workers to replace any you exterminate in the fire.
• Dead branches, stumps, logs, lumber, woodpiles, wood debris, and other wood sources attract termites to your yard, and they send a signal to the queen to produce workers to keep up with the available food sources. If you don't remove wood from your property, you're increasing the potential for significant property damage.
• Termites never stop. They are simple organisms that don't require sleep. They can feed on wood 24 hours a day, 365 days a year—even in the winter.
• In Streator, the termites we battle are Eastern subterranean termites. A low estimate for the average size of an Eastern subterranean termite colony is about 15,000 workers. But there can be as many as several million in one colony.
• Termite workers can travel the length of a football field in search of food sources. This means you can have more than one colony feeding on the wood in your yard.

Do you see the picture forming? Subterranean termites are not an issue to be shrugged off.