10 Sep
2003
10 Sep
'03
8 a.m.
I have a couple of close friends in the exterminating business. Let me
tell you, there's NOTHING that's truely effective on termites anymore since
the EPA took Clorodane off the market. The replacement chemicals costs over
$80/gallon (wholesale!) and you have to use it full strength instead of
dilluting it. Even then it is marginal and the area has to be retreated
every two years.
Score another success for the bugs and the EPA!
Joe
At 10:40 AM 9/10/03 -0700, you wrote:
there are new bait systems now for treatment, but one
wonders if the
extermination companies really want to get rid of what they can charge you a
yearly maint. contract for.
Thanks!
Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC
See the Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation
online at:
http://www.smecc.org
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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: Gawd damn bugs!
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Marvin Johnston wrote:
Festival
They sound like subterrainian termites. They have
sometimes been
described as about the size of a grain of rice, and have "mud" tunnels
in the areas they are damaging.
YES! Exactly!
In my experience, they will tend to go
for the cardboard and softer woods. I had a number of books, magazines,
and docs destroyed by them a few years ago. I had a termite inspector
come in, and they were all over one side of the house. While the house
was also fumigated, some type of chemical was also put onto the ground
to discourage them. The best treatment I've heard was to make your house
unattractive to them so they will go after your neighbors house :).
This is my landlord's problem. I'm sure other businesses in the complex
might be having similar problems.
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