Termite ball detection tool - photo

[Jon]

Termite ball detection tool. Thought this was fake at first, but it's not.



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[jdurand]

Is that a toothpick for a trigger? Since they like to stay inside the wood to be moist, how to you tempt them to eat the toothpick?

Or am I missing something?

[JTG]

The trigger is a compressed cellulose stick, and there's a number of long paper tubes that comes out the bottom of the plastic tube that act as guides to the trigger. Here's a page showing the full device, and here's a pdf explaining how they work.

[Frank S]

And once termites are discovered the easiest way to get rid of them is to drop your home insurance then burn the house down and rebuild it out of concrete