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Our Treatment Process
Our termite treatment in Washington DC includes:
- A thorough initial inspection.
- Sharing findings and a custom treatment plan with you.
- An effective treatment that protects your home.
- Ongoing protection to ensure they don’t come back to your home.
Termites in Northern Virginia
Thousands of species thrive across the globe, but in NOVA, one species causes the lion’s share of damage to homes: the Subterranean Termite. Subterraneans build intricate nests underground, then send out workers to find food beyond the nest. These pests eat cellulose, of which wood and paper are made. As they encounter wood in the ground or resting on the surface of the ground, they call other workers to the food source using pheromones (odor trails). Workers chew through the cellulose and bring it back to feed the rest of the colony.
In the spring, colonies will send out reproductive termites called swarmers, which fly to new locations to start new colonies. Once they find a mate, swarmers will lose their wings and burrow into the soil and begin mating to start a new colony. Spring swarming season in Northern Virginia is when your home is most at risk of a new colony beginning to feed on it.
How Your Home Becomes Termite Food
In nature, these insects have an important role in helping decompose dead wood, but they’re a problem for us because they can’t tell the difference between logs on the ground and the timber of our homes. In general, the process of subterranean termites making a food source for your home goes as follows:
- Workers explore from the nest and stumble upon the foundation of your home which they will then sense wood.
- Workers release a pheromone that calls in backup, signaling to other workers that they’ve found a new food source and need help harvesting it.
- They will then construct mud tunnels that climb your foundation to bridge the moist ground with the wood they’re seeking as a food source.
- Workers burrow into the wood along the grain, creating a massive conveyor belt that brings food back to the colony.
- Termites explore further and further into the timber of your home, hollowing out studs, door frames, and window sills without ever breaking the surface.
- If never discovered, they can hollow out important structural members of your home, weakening them until they collapse.
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Areas We Service in Virginia and Maryland
We’re proud to serve DC and wider NOVA with reliable, quality, and customized pest control services. Chances are, we’re in your neighborhood!
Areas We Service in Virginia and Maryland
- Alexandria, VA
- Bethesda, MD
- Falls Church, VA
- Springfield, VA
- Annandale, VA
