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The impact they inflict goes beyond financial damages. Every year, termites causes a great amount of damages in building structures all across Malaysia.
Cause of Termites Invasion in Malaysia
What Are Termites? Are Flying Termites Dangerous?
They are social insects that can build nests in dirt soil or wood material, occasionally causing damage to structures. With pale beige to white colour bodies and darker head without a waist between the thorax till the abdomen. Their antennae have micro bead like segments that are hardly visible with the naked eye. The non reproductive do not possess wings, blind with skin so thin that makes them vulnerable to dry outside their mud trail.
The reproductive possess two equal pairs of wings, a pair of compound eyes and skin that can withstand from drying out in expose environment. You can find them throughout the year, but swarmer (alates) are only present during rainy seasons. The subterranean and drywood termites typically come out when the colony matures to mate and build anew. These species of insect thrive in a warmer climate and expand their colony in our urban living environment.
Malaysia provides a vast breeding ground for termites because of the warmth and rich in agricultural land. At least 200 species of termites in Malaysia alone. They are one of the most common pests to infest throughout the Malaysian region and the rest of the countries. Unfortunately, the damages they inflict on properties cost Malaysian millions of dollars every year.
Significant Drywood Termites Signs To Lookout For
What Are The Signs Of Drywood Infestation?
Dry wood termites live in organic matter making tunnels in the wood that contain cellulose, the food they feed on. They eat variety of different wood, softwoods, maple and oak, that is commonly their favourite. Termites build nests in the soil, wooden material and manoeuvre through galleries of adjoining tunnels to access food source. Is you suspect an infestation, act fast to rid of them by engaging a trusted specialist to inspect for clear signs.
List below are drywood termite infestation detect during pest control termite structural damage inspection.
Termites in the lawn will invade the tree stump, branches and build termite mound.
Drywood termite droppings looks like saw dust in a pile, clear sign of their presence.
Distinct hollow sounds on wooden fixtures, wooden furniture, doors and walls.
Small holes in woodwork surfaces may indicate drywood termites in furniture.
Clear Indication Of Their Presence In Your Property
How Do You Know If Your House Has Termites?
Infestation in furniture and within walls can be rather difficult to detect and damages escalate quickly in any infestation. Some tell tale signs to look for when inspecting can make things a bit easier. So, here is how you check for activities in the walls and various areas of your property. Firstly, they are organise and allocate their frass termite droppings to exit from the kick out holes from their mud tubes.
When looking for signs to indicate their presence, check out the common indicators of their characteristic behaviour.
To access and eat wood the drywood termite colony construct mud tube a dark colour tunnels to reach their food sources. Our specialist inspect properties searching for these tunnels and piles of saw dust or wood chips.
Piles of saw dust or wood chips are also a clear indication of termites eating wood activities. You can locate them close to a mud trail commonly in the outdoor space. Another indication of early infestation is the swarmers.
Alates are reproductive swarmer, during the rainy they can will gather under the lamp post looking for potential mate. Shedding their wings and find a suitable new home to start a colony and multiply in large numbers.
Shedding of wings are visible and easy to spot scatter in areas that potential host their new colony. Definitely harder to locate an early infestation without the proper knowledge of the species. Let alone identifying the type of species.
They make a faint sound similar to an old typewriter that you can hear in hollow fixtures. They create it by banging their head on the wooden surface. An alarm to warn the entire colony of the danger and threat they are about to encounter.
Termites in floorboards or parquet flooring often leaves questionable holes that most time use as kick out holes for frass. Leaving structure beyond repair and the damages in the floorboard vulnerable to potentially collapse harming occupant.
Over 2,972 Species Around The World
Why Are Termites Common in Malaysia?
They cause significant damage to properties not only to residential houses but to commercial building structures as well.
Change in Climate
One of the key reasons why they are so common in Malaysia is because of the climate change. The temperatures in Malaysia region have rise significantly for over the past few decades particularly during the warmer months. They thrive and reproduce rather quickly expanding colony in far greater numbers with abundance of wood to feast on. As a result, location that was once consider too cold or dry for colonies have become their primary real estate for these pests.
Building Materials
Another major problem is the material use for project site building properties in construction industry. Most modern buildings structure use timber for frames, providing the perfect environment for these pest to nest and feast upon. Most residential homes have wooden flooring, fixtures or furniture, which these destructive pests can target. Landscaping and poor maintenance, encourages their activity, allowing entryway and inviting infestation into the property.
Farming Practices
Changes in farming practices for over the past decades has contribute to their prevalence in Malaysia. Farmers with sugarcane and cotton crops require larger amount of nitrogen that are rich in fertiliser to help growth. Unfortunately, the fertiliser attracts termites to move nearby the property searching for more variety of food sources. Without the proper termite treatment approach to target the pest problem, matters can quickly escalate.
The Ants and Termites Are Enemies
True fact, the number one predators and competition in the pest world for termites are the ants species. Often times, when the nest is too close to one another termite and ant colonies will battle in war for the victory of food.
Professional Termites Control Services
Innovative Pest Blog Summary
At Innovative Pest Sdn Bhd, we provide a few effective approach to Termite control methods:
Termite baiting station will be place in target areas with pest activity and inspect on regular basis specialists. An innovative product design to provide a safe, non-invasive solution against termite attack and damages to your property.
Liquid termiticide treatment create a barrier around the property and as a prevention measure it drive them away. The treated area becomes lethal to the individual termites that encounter it or tries to find an entryway. We provide Termite Soil Treatment, Termite Corrective Treatment and various others to protect your property.
