Coby's Pest Control & Tentless Termite Podcast

And we are back, and today we’re going to be talking about spiders in Tampa Bay, Tampa St, Petersburg, and specifically we’re going to be talking about spiders in Tarpon Springs. So we had a customer call the other day, and she said that there was, she lives in a triplex, and she was seeing 5678, large wolf spiders, or Huntsman spiders. And if, for you don’t know if they can get the size your hand, they could be quite large. She was seeing a ton of and so I was trying to figure out what’s causing that. And usually when you’re when you’re looking at spiders, you’re looking at something that is going to be a, what do you call it opportunistic? There got to be a food source there that’s going to be a what they’re what they’re after. And in this case, there really wasn’t anything like that. And so we were discussing it, and went back and forth for a while. And then I said, were they all the same size? He says, Yeah, they are all the exact same size different parts of house, but that was with the word if I said, Okay. So what probably happened, if you’re not aware of spiders, when they lay eggs, usually those eggs are by the many, many hundreds, if not 1000s, when they they come out, and normally they’ll have a string of silk on them, and that’ll the wind will just blow them and carry them to two different locations. Well, if they hatch an attic, they don’t really have that opportunity. And I probably would think that there’s other spiders, not the, let’s say, the mother, but the other spiders go ahead and take advantage of the situation either. Well, if they’re all the same size, then more than likely what had happened was, is that a catched and you had how many dozens, hundreds, 1000s of spiders came out, but only a handful survived, and then they got to the point where there’s no more food. I mean, they’re in a very small area, and there was just too many spiders for the amount of food that was there. So they were looking for for food, and then they came down into the home from the attic. Now that is from the best I can figure. Did it happen that way? Don’t know, but that’s, that’s my thought process on that. So if you have a really weird spider problem, give us a call. We might be able to help you solve it and or do our treatment and whatnot. But this one’s a little bit different in that we’re trying to understand why so many of the same size and and without a food source, and we made the answer so you have a question about this or anything else I’ve said, just give our office a call, and always remember, as long as God keeps negative, we’ll keep killing you. Have a great day. Bye.

Coby here with oby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control, and we’re going to talk about the weather and Florida bugs now, right now we are when this is being recorded. We are in a very, very wet time of the year, and you never know when these are going to happen, but when they do, things get much, much more active. And I say that if it’s wet and cold, not so much. Rodents would probably go ahead and move a little bit more under those conditions, but roaches and ants, not so much. They are getting slowed down because of the the cold. Anyway, it’s cold enough, it’ll freeze them in the kill them. But most of the time they are in Florida that it never gets cold enough for them to go ahead and actually do that. So in the summertime, though, if you think about it, they are there, they don’t have blood, so it’s, it’s, what do you call it? The inner fluids will go ahead and warm up, and as they warm up, they get much more active and prolific, as far as breeding and whatnot. They also have most of the insects that are going to swarm via reproduction, mostly ants, they’re going to swarm during this time period, great period, time periods from April to October for Florida residents in the Tampa Bay Clearwater St Pete area. So let’s see probably 75% of our calls, and one of the reasons that is, is because you have literally gone ahead and flushed them out of their flush them out of their their homes, and so now they’re moving, and they need to relocate. And usually like to relocate your house. So that’s that’s one of the big things. The other thing that can happen is, is that they will go in when there’s not a lot of water we have. The dry periods, they always go in a dormant state, as far as they know there’s not so the more they move, the more likelihood they’re going to dehydrate and and or die dry wood hermits are great example of that. All they need is a dry piece of wood to survive, and so they don’t need any water, per se, to do that. However, if they have a leak in an area, they that they speed up the process. They know that that when they’re very methodical with their movements, because they like so they dehydrate and die. But if they have the extra water, speeds them up a little bit. And actually, that’s one of the the parts with our treatments that we injected to the attic. Go in the attic and spread out the bare wood injected into the walls. It spikes when you use 20, 3040, gallons of product. It spikes into the into their homes, and that gets them more active, and then more active gets them into products we use. The same thing is basically true with the roaches and ants. When we treat we look to the areas that are going to be the most likely harbor areas, knowing that when it rains, they’re going to come out of there, so which you’re on top of, and then closer to the home, the eaves, they’d love to go up in your attic, around the windows, doors, those are all places they like to get in as well. So we try to hit all those areas where they know it’s going to be problem. But the weather, summer heat, as well as rain causes things to move and or become much, much more active. So that’s the my little spiel on weather and Florida bucks. So hope you find that helpful. If you have questions about this or anything else, please give us a call the please. Yeah, just give us a call. We’d love to talk to you. You have a great day. Bye.

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Coby here with Coby’s tetlet Termite and Pest Control. Today, we’ve been talking about something that that normally, if you watch this channel, listen to us long enough, you know that I’m talking about questions that we get from customers and people in the Tampa Bay area, Clearwater, St, Peter, all those areas. And today it’s this going to be a little bit more about something that’s been that’s bothered me a little bit, but yet, it’s a badge of pride at the same time. And that’s when is a one star review a good thing for a pest control company. The first one is a never, you never want a one star review. And the correct you don’t want to have poor service that causes somebody to go ahead and say they didn’t do what they said they’re going to do, or whatever the case may be like that. However, however, if you go to somebody’s home and you explain the details of what you do, and you know that you’ve been doing this for over 20 years, and they give you a one star review because you’re expensive. Like, is that? Is that even a thing? You have hundreds of companies out there, you can go with anybody, but you give somebody a one story review because they’re expensive. Now, the first time it happened, how I was bothered terribly, what I can do, it’s like he’s a one star review like that. And then I start thinking about it, that’s a badge of honor. I mean, you’re expensive. Okay, yeah, I am why? Because we give the best service out there. I mean, you can drive any car you want, but, but we’re not a Kia. We’re we’re not, I mean, granted, they are getting a little better, and they look pretty cool too on occasion. But we’re not a cheap car or used car. We’re that, we’re that upper echelon company with what we do, and we have worked very, very three, very hard to go ahead and to get there when you literally devote 13 years of your life being on every single job, making the equipment, coming up with the formulas to go ahead and make sure what happens seeing, going back when somebody has a problem, figuring out why they have the problem, and You go on and on, and you just dedicate everything to that. And then you finally feel comfortable enough to say, Okay, now we’ve got this down. And then you train somebody, and you and you train somebody, they do 400 jobs before you let them go out on their own. There’s not another company that I’m aware of in the country that does that. So So yeah, we are more expensive, or we used to be more expensive. This year has been a crazy year where we’re getting prices all over the place. Some are just way higher than, than, than anything that we’re charging. But the reason we’re expensive is because our product well, first of all, just complain to you with all the training and what it took to develop the program, but also the product we use. If you do a fumigation on a home, or tenting on a home, and they take the 10 off, and you can go back in, well, so can the termites. There is no residual for that product, that part, that service, lasts you one minute for the time that everything was air. Dot, you can go back in, actually less time than that. Ours last for up to 50 years. We’re using products that two products that are transfer, products that will has been tested. Basically put a board in the woods and put product around it, see how long a glass and 95% effective over 15 years. Then you’re taking a liquid borate, putting it on the wood. Nothing’s known to take it out of the woods. So it’s basically a permanent treatment. So you have something that’s gonna last for 3040, 50 years versus five seconds. Yeah, that’s gonna be a little more special. So then that’s the only time I can think of. And there are other companies that have running across that same thing. They were too expensive for them. Well, okay, no, I don’t apologize. No, no, I really don’t. We’re expensive. We’re proud of that. It’s a badge of honor, and if I get a one star review because I’m expensive, I’m okay with that. I’m okay with that. So if you have questions, I don’t know about this, but about any bug. Problem, just give us a call. Be happy to talk with you. Oh, and whether you think we’re expensive or not, if you ask me about termite services, I do free consultations, I’d happy to talk to you to see if the person you finally picked that you can afford, whether or not you’re going to use us or not. I’ll be happy to tell you if they’re going to do the right job for you anyways. Hey, always remember, as long as God keeps faking them, we keep killing them. You have a great day. I. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

Hi there, Coby with Coby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control Tampa Bay, self proclaimed guru of bugs, been doing this for about 38 years now, and most of it has been in the Tampa Bay area, specializing, of course, Temple strip mates, one of the questions we get a lot, and I you have already one video that’s going to be very similar to this, but that is in the Tampa Bay area. How much does it cost to treat a home for mice? And as I mentioned, there’s two different main mainly, two different types of termites. You have the ground termites, which will cost you measure around the this is the home, and you multiply it. And for us, it’s about 10 to $12 and we use a number of different things. We do a liquid application with two different liquids, and then we put monitoring stations down, and if we have a hit or activity, then we put boost up that area as well as put bait down. So we use up to three different products to go ahead and take care of those. And like I said, it’s 10, $12 a linear foot as far as a treatment for the dry wood termites. The dry wood termites, we go by basically the volume of the home, not the distance around. And we found that if we do the square footage under roof, not heating cold under roof, we multiply anywhere between 250, to 350, a linear square foot, we get our prices, and that’s how we go about that, the the and those are the the, the the price of of doing that, but the cost of checking a home, you have the price, okay, and then you have the other expenses that are go on with this. And the other expenses being removing your food and medicine. You have to leave your home for three days, your pets, your family, the inconvenience, if you have to stay with your mother in law, but the Moreover, though, the possibility that one, they didn’t get them all, which we’ve seen that a lot lately, and I’m not sure why, because it used to be nobody would ever get a fumigation and then have them that year, the year, that year, maybe. But even that’s a little odd. So it’d be the next year. So we’re seeing that a little bit more frequently. And I don’t know why that is. I know the companies are doing the the treatments correctly, but I don’t know why we’re seeing more activity. The other thoughts are the like I said, the damage that they can do to the roof or the gutters or the shrubs, definitely, if they’re close to the house, if you have a bird cage, you have to have a company come out and remove the screen, put the screen back. So there’s just a lot of other costs that are involved, plus the time that it takes for the preparation. So you price versus cost is, what the what the thing is the analysis there, but we’ve seen some really crazy swings in the price of a fumigation. This year. We have seen one particular home, I think our price, when it was 3500 ish in around that between three or $4,000 and we saw as little as $2,100 to 6000 for the exact same treatment. And I said the exact same because they have the same amount of gas they have to have. So there’s not a, there’s not a there’s not a variable there, there’s not one company does a lot better job the other because they more experienced. No, they go by the cubic footage. They put the gas in according to this, then they monitor it. They do what they’re supposed to do. They get in out and take the tent off. So so it is the same service. Whereas if you have a tetanus to our company, they vary greatly, but they vary because of the lack of experience. Nothing wrong with these companies. They just have not done 1000s of these treatments, and so they are unfamiliar with what’s going to happen with the initial treatment, what to what the customer explained properly, customers is going to see and how long they’re going to see these problems for, and how that how they they’re solved, as well as I haven’t run into any company yet with a tentless treatment that has a lifetime guarantee, except for for us. And the reason I think that’s important for you is because most of these companies will go ahead and after, say, 2345, years. Say no time to go get your house to it. That’s not that’s how you do that. You took somebody’s money to begin with. You did a job for them. You honor it. You keep on after until they’re gone. Anyhow, that’s a different thing in effect. Actually, I’ll go ahead and do a. Uh, another video on that as well. But the cost versus prices is, whenever somebody asks me how much the cost of fumigate at home, it varies greatly and and the price versus the cost is completely different as far as how much more it’s going to cost you to go ahead and and above and beyond the price. So hope you found this helpful. If you have this question about this or anything else. Give us a call at covid, termite and 10 list, Termite and Pest Control, and always remember, as long as God keeps making them, we’ll keep killing you. Have a great day. Do. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

We’re back talking today about how many termite colonies Can you have in one home? Well, if you’re talking about subterranean termites there’s the thought that there’s probably one very large colony and there could be several 100,000 to several million termites in a subterranean termite colony under the house. And the good thing about that is, honey, the good thing about that is, is that you are when you treat the home, that one colony could, because they’re communicating back and forth, when they get into the products that we put down for for to control the termites, it spreads to the entire colony, not surmounted, gone. With dry wood termites, each place that you see, a pile is a high probability, it’s a completely separate colony, they’re not attached. So you could have one in the winter, so you can have an indoor, you can have cabinets, you know, multiple in the attics, all these places, you can have them and they would be completely separate colonies. And why this is important is that as the the termite colony gets older, usually around five years, it will, it will have enough product in the economy that it can sustain swarming elites reproductive termites leaving the colony and forming their own new colony. So at the five year mark, you have say 500, termites, at the six year mark starts to snowball, you get in this one colony over here. Now you go ahead and have another colony, it takes five years to get going. The next and there can be multiple times that you can literally having a massive snowball effect, and have dozens, if not hundreds of colonies. And if it goes on check, 1000s of colonies that are completely separate that are not attached to one another. And so if you’re treating a spot, because then you think that’s where they’re at, that’s not going to get the job done, you have to treat the whole house. And our particular type of treatment we do we treat the house, attic crawlspace as wall voids, doors, windows, whatever, wherever the wood is where the termite can be, we treat it and we also try to prevent them getting in any further. Even though they may get in, they’re not going to populate because they have something that they’re going to take a bite die you’re doing, at least with the products we use now. If you have a fumigation. It lasts for about five seconds. And I don’t say that facetiously in, jokingly it literally lasts for five seconds. And the reason you have to be able to go back into the home, in order to go ahead and clear it and be safe. Well should you can go back and that means there’s no insecticide or anything in the wood or in the air. And so that you’re looking at the termites come right back. And when you have termite season, we call termite season, can last two to three months. Those swarms are going to happen every day. And on the day they happen to the wind blow towards your house or to blow away from the house. So if you treat it and then the wind blows towards your house the next day, literally, you can have the infestation start all over again, that you won’t see that for five and sometimes even 10 years, depending on where in the house, the homeless that’s at, but they’re eating the entire time. So you can have many many many dozens hundreds, it just depends on how long goes untreated. Most people take care but once you start to see three five colonies they they start to see activity they take care of but some people don’t or if you have older homes with plaster walls, well they’re don’t necessarily eat to the plaster. So if you’re not seeing swarms, you’re not seeing pellets you don’t normally spend anyways. That being said, hopefully this video helpful and always remember, as long as God keeps picking, we’ll keep telling him you have a great day.

Hi, Coby here with Coby’s Termite and Pest Control here today to talk to you about what I saw on a window of of a pest control company, a fumigation company, to be more precise, and what they said on there was, beware of tentless, termite companies. Now we’re a catalyst company. Of course, I took offense to that, and the offense was that we may be aware. We guarantee our work. We go back as we have a problem, we make sure that they’re taken care of. My office staff is fantastic. My technicians are the best I know. What we’re capable of and what goes on and how it goes on and and beware. Well, then, as years go by for us doing this service, and now, it’s been over 20 years since we’ve done template services. 22 Yeah, I think 22 years now in the Tampa Bay Clearwater St Pete area and and I could agree with it more, beware of demonic companies. And the reason being is this is that, first of all, most of these folks who are doing this type of work, they don’t have a good idea about these and it’s only because of experience. I mean, it’s, it’s like a, oh, it’s like a kid driving a car for the first time. It takes a while for them to go ahead and just learn how to drive and whatnot, before they can get their permit. Then they get their permit that they get, as you know, and that’s exactly what they see here. Well, it took us 13 years every single job being on to go ahead and make the equipment and find out the best products and materials. And the biggest thing we were able to do is treat the Bellevue bit more, which was the largest occupied wooden structure in the world. And that really, really segued into how we got our experience and knowledge, whatnot. And so with us, we’ve always gone ahead and given you up to a lifetime warranty. As long as you want to keep your warranty, we’ll continue to go ahead and make sure you’re protected. And that, I don’t know of another that could be wrong. There could be some place somebody that has this, but I do not know of another tele company that that literally will go ahead and say the long as you want us, we’ll be there for you. Every other company will either have a very limited could be one year, could be three years, could be five years, but most of the time what they do is they so we’re going to treat this. We’ll do our best we can for you. This is going to help a lot. And then when we give up and say that we tried hard enough, and now you need to put a 10 over the house, well, why don’t you just do that to begin with? Don’t just take their money and then have them do the same thing. And a lot of these companies that do this, they literally offer fumigation. Now, why in the world will you go ahead and be a fumigation company and a tentless termite company? Is it going to be one or the other there? But, but the point being is this, is that do beware tentless termite companies? Because if they go ahead and when they give up, which they asked us the other day. So when do you fumigate? Never we. We don’t ever quit. We don’t never stop. We keep we take your money. We’re going. We think we can do the job right and do justice for your home and give you the best treatment on the market today for tentless termite. We don’t quit. And I don’t know of another company that does that. Yeah, maybe flip my boat a little bit, but, but it is, it is the truth, and so do be careful when you are who’s going to be treating your home. US also the cost of those things, if you have something under $2,000 I am very, very suspect on what they’re using and what their guarantee is. So, so we can’t, we can’t touch anything unless it’s a spot treatment for that kind of money. So yeah, we’re a little bit on the high side, but your home is your most valuable investment. Where would you want to put your money? Anyhow? Enough of that. But if you have questions about this or anything else, please give us a call. The the tentless termite, though, be aware of them. That’s that’s a that’s a good thing. I now agree with that, that thing on the side of the truck. So Alright guys, well, you have a great day. And always remember. If one God keeps making them, we’ll keep killing them.

And we’re back  talk to you today about best way to take care of fleas. Now, if you’re talking outside, one of the things you need to know is that fleas on the exterior, if they are in direct sunlight, they cannot live. So if you have nothing but a big yard full of sun, not much trees or shrubs or anything like that, you’re not going to have anywhere near the amount that you would if you had trees and shade and shrubs, fence lines and so on. I don’t know one of the reasons I would think would because we’d have more squirrels, possum, Coons, those type of things in that area. But direct sunlight is just not they need the moisture to survive, and so they’re not able to do that. So if they’re outside, don’t waste your money on very, very sunny parts of the yard. If you’re going to treat them, take the time and go ahead and and treat the shade and the areas now. So where’s the dogs run at the most? Now, that’s a very, very important or catch for that matter. Where do they run at the most? And that’s going to be another spot that you want to go ahead and do the interior is a completely different story. Now, years and years ago, the only way you could control fleece, if you did a monthly application carpets, you tilted up the furniture, you went underneath there, you sprayed the furniture, you lifted the cushions, you sprayed on the cushion. You mean, it was a very, very thorough treatment every every single month, because these were terrible each time. Then the growth regulators are, what breaks the cycle of the fleece would either can’t lay eggs or net the egg is, does hatch out, it can’t ever become a sexually mature adult. And so that would be the next thing that you would go ahead and do. And then, lo and behold, the guess it’s pet pharmaceuticals, for lack of a better term, came into play. And when they did, we had advantage. Oh my gosh, it was a wonderful thing. You could put that on a cat, and within the next morning, you see dead fleas all around the location. And those and then went from from advantage to frontline, Vantage, being medical opioid, Frontline, being frippin ill. And those work for a solid 10 years, and they were great. Well, they seem to get used to it, so they went on. So then they went to the next thing would be the pill, which is what most dogs are taking. I’m not sure what they’re doing for cats right now, but for dogs, that’s the pill does a wonderful job as far as killing and I think it’s got heart worm possibilities as well. Anyhow, that being said, those are the things that I’ve retina, first and foremost, before we put in the insecticide in the home. After that, though, if you need to go ahead and do something, we see a lot less carpet, a lot more carbon, thorns, tile, whatever it is. And so spraying those with a wet liquid isn’t necessarily less than you do. So there are a number of different products on the market. What’s the Ultra? PT? Ultra? Forget now. Or ultra side, the names change and everything. But pre core 2000 was one of them, current, one that I hear a lot of, and if you use quite a bit, is night guard plus. And all these parts are in an aerosol can, and they dry exceptionally fast. That’s important. We want to go ahead and not do damage to your your furniture, your to your your floors, not have to worry about that, but it also is a very effective thing to do. So more and more I’m recommending along those lines. Now we certainly can do those treatments. And if you’re having a terrible problem, we we can help you but a thorough vacuuming, mopping the floor, so with rubbing alcohol, if it is a a hybrid floor, or something like that, and or the insecticide, growth regulator mix in the aerosol cancer, those are probably going to be your biggest thing. We that’s a lot how we would treat now, if that’s not working, then they’re jumping on you. Then, then we absolutely can help but, but these are some things you can do in your own and places you can treat different things you can use. And if you have questions about this or anything else for that matter, just give us a call at our offices, and we’d be happy to talk to you about this or any other pest problem you might have. So I’m Coby with Coby’s Termite and Pest Control, and as long as God keeps making we’ll keep killing them. And you have a great day. You.

Coby here with Coby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control, and I love to go on my search engine for my my AdWords, and seeing the different what search terms people typed in. And one of them is, is it alternatives for tenting, for toys? And the good news is there is, well, obviously, with our name being Coby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control, l, there would be your alternative. And so what the biggest difference is is, well, actually, there’s several one you’re not having to leave your home, bag up your medicine, take your pets, and you’ve out for so many days, worry about damage to your home and other things. So that’s one of the things you don’t have to do. But the other big one is longevity. Fumigations are designed to kill immediately and then disappear. There’s absolutely no residual to a product. So people will go ahead termite companies will go ahead and gear in here for four or five years, knowing that those termites are coming back, either the year that they treated the home or the next year, because those it the area is for festival termites. The trees are the other homes in the areas are wood piles, fences, shrubs, all that stuff has drive with termites, and they’re going to swarm over and over and over again and get right back into your home. They give you a four or five year warranty, because you’re not likely to see a swarm for at least five years, because that’s how long it takes for two termites, 251, termites to come together. And once they’ve done that, then they the colony Bill big enough before it could make it fly out that takes five years. So they’re getting a five year warranty on something that you’re not going to see for five years anyway. So that’s a bone of contention with me, but, but it’s the way they run their business, and they did kill your termites so that they’ve done what they said they were going to do. That being said, the alternatives to that is to go ahead and treat as much bare wood in the home as you can now. You go about doing that by treating the attic, treating if you have crawl space crawling underneath, treating all the bare wood that’s underneath the floor and whatnot. If you have wooden frame in the walls, you need to treat in between each one of those studs. And if you have an older home where you have wood laugh that goes across and then plaster on that, you have to make sure every board is treated. And there’s special ways to go ahead and do that. So there is alternatives. We they really need to know what they’re doing with that, because it would be pretty easy to miss one of those spots and for them to be a big problem. Also the combination of or the products that they use. For example, if you use a powdered borate the one that most people are familiar with is Tim bore. It does a fantastic job. If you’re treating a brand new structure that has just been built, it does a terrible job if you have an older home with existing infestation. And the reason for that is is that when you go ahead and put down a powdered product, it’s like dredging a piece of chicken and flour before you fry it, you put it in there and you fry, it gives you a great crust, but it doesn’t penetrate into the wood. Liquid borates, on the other hand, do, and so that’s why it’s it’s so important to go ahead and use the right products. There’s a lot of people that are using what they think will be a very good job for a existing infestation, and unfortunately, this doesn’t work real well, and a lot of them give up and say, you have to get fumigation. So there absolutely is alternatives. Our specialty, what we specialized in over the last 20 years, and that we’d love to talk to you about that or any other pest problem you may have, so feel free to give us a call, and we’d love to speak with you.

Always remember, as long as God keeps making them, we’ll keep killing them. Have a great day. Bye.

Coby here with Coby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control, talking about all things bug related in the Tampa Bay area, Tampa Clearwater st, Petersburg. So today it’s getting questions about carpenter ants. And this is the time here we’ll see a lot of swarming insects, termites, ants, little ants, big ants, and then these really big ones, up to a quarter of an inch, and they will be around lights or your pool area and or if you are out and about in the evening time you will see them in the street lights sworn toward street lights. And so I can remember one one time I was going into a grocery store here in Clearwater, and it was probably 830 at night, and every time the automatic doors have opened, it’s big thing of termites will come down and go right into the into the swirling, of course, everybody’s in the stores running in there. I thought it was kind of comical, but, but the only thing you could do is keep the door closed, because as soon as that door opened, there was just so many 1000s upon 1000s swarming in that parking lot that any any avenue for them to get in they were going to get in. The good news about carpenter ants is, there is such a thing, is that they do not eat wood. Let me say that again, carpenter ants do not eat wood. Now, it took me over 10 years before I found that out, because every place I read they didn’t say they ate wood, but they didn’t say they didn’t eat wood as well. And then all of my carpenter customers would say, or a lot of my customers that were from north to say, Oh yeah, we had a problem these car prints. They ate our back porch off. And I was hearing things like that over and over and over and over again. And then I happened to go this one seminar, I was like the ant expert of the world that was talking about different things. And after seminar, I stopped him. Said, Hey, look, are there ants that could eat wood, that can do damage to wood? He goes. So here’s the deal. In North America, there is no ant that can actually eat wood. What they can do if you and I can take our hand and crumble it because it is rotten, or they wouldn’t eat funguses in there, if they can do that, then what you wind up with is a soft, spongy thing, and they they excavate that, and they’ll live inside of that. Now they can, they can live inside there. But they also like electronics. I found them in the food processor. I have found them in hot water heaters. I’ve seen them pool pumps and or air conditioners outside. Them nest into the electronics and short, because we’re so many, they shorted out the the component, so they can live in a lot of different things under the insulation. So when I first got into this business, this was, this was almost 40 years ago, the only you could find or do anything with these, these find or do anything with the ants, you’d have to track them down. And so you’re looking for one ant and following the thing from point A to point B, hoping that it would go someplace. And it took hours and hours and hours for you to do this. And it was not uncommon to have 1015, colonies, and you’d go back to a home. I had one house that had 27 separate colonies, and it took me over 20 visits before we finally got rid of them, on how we found them and where they were at. And then came transfer products, products to where, if you put it down, term like that, into probably the A got into it, and then it transferred back to colony and killed the colony. And that was just a godsend for all of us who grew up in this business, where you had to track everything down, works so effectively, and still does today. And usually, once you apply pesticide, these pesticides down for ants, and they work for just about any ant, but, but put them down. Usually it’s a three to seven day process, and once that process is done, almost always they’re gone. I’d say less than 5% of time. Then you go back a second time for that. And if I do, there’s usually some place where I didn’t even come close to going ahead and treating the area. So So covid, the good news is they don’t eat with the bad news is that if they can be in your home infested, but it is something we can help you with. So if you have questions about this or anything else, please give us a call, and we’d be happy to go ahead and talk about this or anything else. Um. Always remember, as long as God keeps making them, we keep killing them. You have a great day.

Coby with Coby’s Tentless Termite and Pest Control here today, talking about questions, we’ve been getting a lot of, what does the termite look like? And if you’re dealing with subtracting termites in the springtime in Florida, that Tampa Bay, St Pete Clearwater area, that is probably middle of January to April, 15, middle of April. And if you see a thing, then the biggest thing you’re going to notice is black flying ants and and they’re usually from dozens to 1000s or 10s of 1000s, and that, that’s the that’s a starting point there. There’s much more details on it and what you want to do, but that’s what you’re going to see. You also, if you’re digging around in a yard, you’re going to see these little things that look like maggots crawling around. Those are going to be the working cast of the termites. Could be some soldiers in there too, but those are going to work in cast. Whereas this, the flying ones are the reproductive so someone’s going to start new colonies and and go eat somebody else’s home. But if you’re doing in the, I’d say Mother’s Day, to say August 15, in and around those time periods, what you’re looking at is you’re going to see something that’s going to a light inside at and it’s going to be the evening time, 10 to 10 to 210. O’clock in one till two o’clock in the afternoon is the normal time for the for the ground terminal swan. Evening time attracted going to a light would be that now the little things flying around, and those look at flying ants as well. They’re not black in most cases, though they use a brown or a brownish color. And so that’s what you would you would see around those time time period. And if you don’t see dinner that time period, the next day, what you would see is these little wispy wings. And you walk by and you put a clean unit, almost anything, and these things kind of flutter up there. So what the exact they’re on windowsills, a lot of times around windows. Why? Because that’s the easiest access point for them. And they’re also attracted to a light. So if there’s a light shining through from the outside, over a light on any place, you can see them around those areas. So that’s the basics of that. Now, with, if you broke open any piece of wood, just as if you were working in the yard with a submarine termite, you would see these things that look like, like maggots crawling around, and so if you saw anything like that. Now, the other thing you might see, and it’s not for the subgrant termites, you would see a tube of mud, not much bigger than your pinky. Sometimes they get real big, but that’s where they start off at. And so you would see this little tube of mud. And if you saw this little tube of mud, then it would go ahead and be an indication that you were having a subtree termite infestation. Break that little piece of mud open and you would likely see crawling white termites in there on the dry wood termite side. The easiest way to tell is if you see this recurring sawdust. And I say sawdust, but it’s probably more like a coffee ground or pencil shavings. Lot of times, pencil shavings could be identified, also as a carpenter ant, but if the any, any thing like that, but, but any color. It could be a salt, pepper, it could be a blonde, it could be a purple, I mean red, it could be any color, but you clean it up and it comes back, clean it up, comes back. That would be an indication also, of too much, not so much, what they look like, but what their evidence looks like. And those would be your things. Now, if you have blisters or bubble in the paint, put your finger on it. It goes through see if there’s something going on there or not so but if you have a question about this or anything other pest problems, you just give us a call. Be happy to talk to you about this. Always remember, as long as God  keeps making them, we’ll keep killing them. Have a great day.