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Strategies & Market Trends : Trading the SPOOs with Patrick Slevin! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doo who wrote (6946)	5/22/2002 9:11:36 AM
From: SE	Respond to of 7434

Believe it or not. Most in town don't believe it. In fact it took us three weeks to truly identify the little devils. Heck, even some pest control people were not truly certain what they were. They thought they were termites, but had not seen them in the area before. We had to send a sample to an entomologist at the UW system. We have Eastern Subterranean Termites and quite the infestation at that. They are almost done with the treatment, thankfully. I have yet to deal with my wood pile, which is also infested. I have been told it is too close to the house, so I need to move it, but frankly I do not have a good spot to move it to, so unsure at this point what to do with it. Luckily for us, our house is built out of prestressed concrete beams, so structurally there is no damage of significance. However, we do have 2X4 wall stud construction as well, and that is what they are enjoying. Anything cellulose. In fact, they have been eating the cardboard paper backing on the wallboard even. Little bastids. Not a fun find, but in the last six to eight weeks I have become quite the termite expert. Amazing creatures. Most people in town call carpenter ants termites...so when we say termites, they assume carpenter ants. No one around here gets it. The entomologist from the UW said in the last five years he has started to see an influx of cases of termites in Southeastern WI and in fact, as far up as Green Bay and Eau Claire. So even though they are not deeply entrenched, as they are in the South, they are here and growing in numbers. My youngest has become quite adept at finding them. There have been several spots around the yard where he would find them located in a partial buried piece of wood. Not a fun deal.