What are Termite Mud Tubes?
Summer is coming soon, and with summer comes termite
season! These common home pests can cause thousands of dollars of damage to
you and your property, so it’s good to know how to prevent them. If you’re
looking into how to spot termites in your home, the first place to start is
with their mud tubes.
What are Termite Mud Tubes?
As termites crawl around your property, they like to build
little tunnels that connect them to food sources, water, or even just a good
spot to store things. As a colony grows, it expands, and that makes
more tunnels as well. If you’ve noticed little lines of mud across your
home, it’s a good chance that those are termite
mud tubes, made as they explore the area or even start eating the wood of
your home. Make sure to clean them up as they appear, so that the termites
can’t keep coming into your home.
A Closer Look at Types of Mud Tubes
There are four major types of termite mud tubes.
Exploratory Tubes, which are termites’ ways of finding new
food or water sources on your property. These are often the easiest to see, and
if you follow them, you might stumble across the larger nest.
Working Tubes, which are like termite highways– they take
all the worker termites from one place to another, so that they can gather food
and water for the colony. These will also lead back to the central hub of the
colony.
Swarm Tubes, which are what happens when the working tubes
get overcrowded. These are temporary tunnels for when something bad has
happened in the working tubes, and the termites need a way around it.
Drop Tubes, which are termites’ ways of finding new food
that might be below them, on a basement floor or even just a lower story of
your home. These are easy to spot, because they look like small muddy stalactites.
Removing termite mud tubes
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