A termite only needs 1/64” to enter a structure. Termites can enter your home virtually anywhere. Termites can enter through hairline cracks in slabs, through hollow block and brick foundations, from behind stucco, stone or brick veneer, or through expansion joints around plumbing. With thousands of hits to your foundation daily, it’s only a matter of time before they find a way.

There are approximately 4 to 12 colonies per acre of land. Each colony contains 10,000 to 1.5 million termites. The colony can exist underground as far away as 150’ in any direction and still be the source of the termites infesting your home.

At any one time, a percentage of the colony is blindly and systematically foraging for food. All it takes is just one termite to form a link between your house and the colony.

Foraging termites move through the soil searching for wood using chemo-receptors on their antennae. When a termite touches a piece of wood, it begins to fee and release a chemical pheromone. The termite creates a pheromone trail all the way back to the colony. the colony is now linked to the food source and if that food source is your single greatest investment (your home), then you have big trouble

With each pass the pheromone trail becomes stronger. Hundreds of thousands of termites, now move back and forth between your house and the colony. The termites now transport the cellulose (wood) back to the babies in the colony for processing…..24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.