Drywood Termite Damage

Guys, found a site which is related with the signs of drywood termite damage.If you think that a length of timber has or is being eaten, use a screwdriver gently to attempt to break it open. if you see white insects that look like ants, you have termites. Sometimes, winged termites swarm too., but so do ants.Termites are white because they rarely see the sun, they do not like light, so they build so-called galleries to walk through. These galleries can be through a length of timber or they might use chewed wood to make galleries leading to where they want to go. For, example pencil-like galleries may hang off the underside of your floorboards to the ground or be attached to concrete walls.These tube-like galleries can be abandoned or active. Snap a few and see. If they are brittle they have been abandoned, but that does not mean that the termites have departed.Sometimes, the tubes are constructed of earth and this is a very bad sign, because it means you have subterranean termites, probably under your house. If you knock these galleries off the walls, they will leave marks called etchings, which will be evidence of termite activity until the house is knocked down, for anyone who recognizes them.