Dale from Sun City West, Arizona writes
I have trenched outside, but found termites in one area yet. What is your suggestion? Thanks.
Performing the trench treatment with Taurus on the outside of the house will kill the termites that are already in your home along with the colony that is in the ground. Termites that are above the ground in the house when you perform an in ground Taurus treatment will die when they go back down to the ground. Termites in your walls don't stay there. Their job is to eat the wood, the colony's food, and then they take it back underground to feed the rest of the colony below the ground where the queen is. The termites go up and down, up and down, up and down, every day. So when you perform a liquid termite treatment, the termites that are below the surface that have not made it up into the house yet will take the Taurus on their bodies up into the house and spread it around to all the termites, and vice versa, any termites up in the walls heading down to take what they have eaten down to the queen and other colony members will have to go through the Taurus barrier you installed and they will become infected at that point as well. It is not necessary to perform a spot treatment inside but you can if you so choose. When injecting Taurus into the walls you want to drill about 6 inches from the floor surface and between every wooden stud down the entire length of the wall. Please let us know if you have any other questions.
Answer last updated on: 03/17/2014
