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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 sour...

It’s termite season again, and you know what that means- thousands of dollars in property damage could potentially be heading your way. If you’d like to keep your house and livelihood this fall, understanding how to identify termites and what you can do to prevent a problem is key. Identifying Termites Termites are a pretty easy bug to identify. They’re about half an inch long, colored with white or brown pigmentation and small pincers. It’s easier, though, to identify them by the marks they leave behind: patterns of discolored drywall, peeling paint, hollow walls, broken wooden furniture, and small pockmarked holes in your drywall. You might also see muddy tube-like structures leading up to and beside the foundation of your home, which is where the termites like to nest when they’re not inside the walls. You might also notice them in brush piles or bushes around your home because wood is wood and they’re not picky. Termite Prevention Termites are a pretty easy pest to prev...