Help - wood mites

[thequietman]

Went to close my window last night at bed time and it was covered in mites eating the varnish and getting started on the wood. Brushed them all off and wiped the stone wall clear of their way up the wall.

How do I rid myself of these please?

 

I see them feasting on small, old pieces of bamboo and wood around the village. There is a very dry flower bed below the window. Is this dry area helping as a place where they live? If I make the area wetter  will it discourage them?

 

Many thanks for any help.

[thequietman]

Nobody?

 

[GarryP]

Do you mean termites? Just bought a house and yesterday found out the infestation was worse than I had originally thought. Will get the termite exterminators round in the next few days.

[Crossy]

Are we talking termites here?

 

You need to call the "termite man" to sort the infestation before it gets going.

 

EDIT GarryP got there first (just).

 

[thequietman]

50 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Are we talking termites here?

 

You need to call the "termite man" to sort the infestation before it gets going.

 

EDIT GarryP got there first (just).

 

They look too small to be termites. Tiny, pin point white suckers. Look like mites. Made their way up the wall with a little tunnel and them started munching on the wood. In the sticks, so no 'termite man.' I guess he is me.

Any local bought solutions or mixtures to this?  Thanks.

[petermik]

Chandrite do a plastic bottle of a clear substance (forgot the name of the chemical) which is for the eradication of termites/ants etc available in Homepro/Watsadu for around 280 baht,it is mixed with water (1part liquid up to 60 parts water) and used by spray or watering can.....very effective,cleared a small termite issue we had in one of our plasterboard ceilings a while ago

[chiang mai]

Keep a spray can of mossie type pray handy and watch the trail and see where they are coming from and going to, spray both ends - it doesn't take much to kill things that small.

[chickenslegs]

3 hours ago, thequietman said:

They look too small to be termites. Tiny, pin point white suckers. Look like mites. Made their way up the wall with a little tunnel and them started munching on the wood. In the sticks, so no 'termite man.' I guess he is me.

Any local bought solutions or mixtures to this?  Thanks.

 

If the tunnels look something like this, you have termites.

 

 

Chaindrite make a termite spray with a long, slim, metal tube that fixes onto the nozzle. Use it to spray into the tunnel and down into the soil below. Also, spray as deeply as possible into the window frame where the termites have entered. Leave it to soak in for a while before scraping off the mud tunnel.

 

Check all around the house for more tunnels, and keep checking regularly, as these little buggers don't stay in one place.