In February, we showcased five unusual termite mud tubes. Since then, we’ve received enough additional photos for a — wait for it — callback. We’ve included the profile handles of those with Instagram accounts; don’t forget to follow us there at @pmp_magazine.
Photo: Juan Garcia
Juan Garcia (@inspektorjohnny), a residential solutions specialist with Western Exterminator Co. in Carson, Calif., estimates that this active infestation of what he believes to be Western subterraneans is several years old.
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- Photo: Ernie Henson
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- Photo: Ernie Henson
Ernie Henson sent two photos of termite mud tubes he’s encountered as president of Maricopa, Ariz.-based Stormin’ Norman Termite & Pest Control (@storminnormanpc).
Photo: Eric Marell
Earlier this year, Eric Marell, president of Cross Country Exterminators, Chipley, Fla., received a call from a cell phone technician who had termites swarming in a cell phone tower building. Marell conducted a structural inspection, but came up with nothing — until he opened the breaker box. “I found the tubes were coming in through the conduit,” he says.
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- Photo: Keith Birkemeyer
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- Photo: Keith Birkemeyer
Keith Birkemeyer, ACE, president of Gilbert, Ariz.-based ProBest Pest Management (@probestpest), uses the photo of termite tubes sprawling across a carpet on his company’s Better Business Bureau profile. Determined termites will even build a tube on a cotton T-shirt, as Birkemeyer’s photo proves.
Photo: Charles Osborne
As a soldier in Iraq in the early 2000s, Charles Osborne, ACE, president of Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Osborne Pest Management (@osborne.pest), snapped a photo of termites on a eucalyptus tree. “People couldn’t believe that we had subterraneans in the desert, but remember, we also had the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for a moisture source,” he says.
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