Termite ball detection tool - photo

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

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...ction_tool.jpg

Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...839#post119295
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...1153#post73822

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?

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.

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