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The
Marvin H. Schaefer Inspection Service, Inc.
Connecticut Home Inspections
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Schaefer
provides a wood destroying insect inspection of every home we inspect.
These insects include: termites, carpenter ants, carpenter bees, and
powder post beetles. Knowing each insects characteristics is
important to know what to look for and where to look for it, what
conditions are conducive for them to survive, and how each one can
damage the home.
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TERMITES:
Top left
- Reproductive termites swarm in the spring and are typically the termite
cast home owners see.
Top center - Worker termites are rarely seen and do the damage to the
home as they eat the wood.
Top right - A shelter tube on a foundation wall, which termites built to
protect them from exposure to light and drying effects of air.
Left - A. Damage to joist. B. Damage to subfloor. |
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CARPENTER ANTS:
Top left - Carpenter ant
Top center - Reproductive carpenter ant
Top right - Damage from carpenter ants. Carpenter ants do not eat the
wood, they bore through it to nest in it.
Left - Frass, the sawdust like material with insect body parts that
the carpenter ants dispose of as they bore through the wood.
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CARPENTER BEE |
Typical
damage observed from carpenter bees in trim of houses |
Carpenter
bees bore entrance holes into galleries to lay eggs |
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POWDER POST BEETLES
Left -
Powder post beetle
Right - exit holes in
wood from powder post beetles |
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The evidence
of an infestation is often not an observation of the actual wood destroying
insect. Most infestations are found due to damage, shelter tubes from
termites, frass, exist holes, insect body parts and more. Knowing how
to differentiate evidence of one insect from another is critical in
determining what insect the home should be treated for when active.
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| Copyright © 2006 The Marvin H. Schaefer
Inspection Service, Inc. All Rights
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