Your home is one of the most important assets you need to protect. We spend a lot of money making sure that we live in a wonderful place. Termites can come in and damage that investment.
These insects are wood-destroying insects that can damage your house and ruin the structural integrity of your home. Keeping them out is extremely important, and that takes a proactive homeowner. A good Broken Arrow Pest Control company can help you deal with termites. They have preventative measures and processes that they can use to get rid of termites if you’ve already got them in your home.
So in this article, let’s take a look at termites and explore them a little bit.
Termites are a colony-based insect. That means that they work together in a large group toward a common goal. That goal is survival. Because they’re communal in nature, they separate the work based on what each bug is tasked to do.
The largest part of that is the caste of the workers. These are all females, and they do all the menial jobs of the colony. The soldier insects are another caste. These are larger termites that protect the colony in case of invasion. They have large heads and powerful mandibles that can defend against an invasion.
Lastly, you have the reproductive caste, and this includes the insects that maintain the population. At the top of that caste is the queen, who lays all the eggs for the entire colony.
These bugs would love to get into your house and eat every bit of wood that you have. They’re looking for the cellulose that you can find inside the wood. Wood at its cellular level is essentially made of two things: lignin and cellulose. That cellulose gives them the energy to survive.
Termites have a special enzyme in their stomach lining that they use to break down that cellulose. This enzyme has to be passed from adult to young termite, or nymph. The way this is done is through a process called trophallaxis.
Basically, while the nymph is developing, the developed worker will actually feed the nymph from its anus. The nymph will consume droppings that have some of the enzymes in them, giving it the enzymes it needs in its digestive system. Every time the termite molts, or changes its skin, it will need to go through this process to refill its reserves of these enzymes.
If you’re having an issue with termites or any other problems, it’s important that you call a Broken Arrow Pest Control company that can help you. TermMax Pest Control is the best out there, and we can do what it takes to keep your house pest-free. Call us today.
