Termite Grooming Habits Bring Their Demise Termites clean themselves and each other. The do this by licking or grooming one another. This tendency for termites to groom one another can be used to bring about their death. Dusting of termite galleries with conventional insecticides has been used particularly for the control of drywood termites.
Grooming helps distribute the toxic dusts among members of the colony.
Slow-acting toxicants greatly improve the efficiency of transfer from termite to termite. Various methods for delivering these groomable toxicants can be offered by Tri-Valley Termite Control. I think we're going to hum right along. And housing permits will climb to 22,000 in 2001, up 43 percent from three years ago. Recent Inland-area economic reports have shown that the region's business activity is slowing somewhat, but it is still growing faster than most other areas of California.