You want me MOVE? ME? Are you nuts?
Well, voracious, that’s for sure. Maybe it’s the heat here in Rome even if the house is pretty cool with this “penguin” sitting in the living room making cool air happen, but we have drywood termites dropping out of somewhere.
This is a penquin.
The wooden ceiling? Our huge mirror frame (who knows how old it is but it’s really OLD and came with the apartment)? The wood flooring? The couches from Ikea? And mama is running around with a paintbrush and something called “antitarli” becaue “tarli” are termites and she’s brushing the mirror frame and the floors and everything in sight with this stuff and spraying some pretty awful stuff into the couches and onto the floorboards, around which I am not allowed.
Anyone have any solutions for drywood termites?
And the worst part is that they drop their silly little transparent wings and go off somewhere into the couch or the books or wherever they can find to munch on something and so all these little disgusting wings are lighting on the couch and when mama sees them just after she has vacuumed and painted and sprayed, she goes bonkers.
This is a wetwood termite and we DON’T have these, thank heaven. What do they do with those wings anyway if they’re going to drop them all over the place. I suppose mama could find a use for them if she really put her mind to it, like maybe lacquer them and make a necklace or something, haha.
All kidding aside, any solutions will be MORE than welcome because it is verboten for me to sleep on the sprayed couch back until these little suckers get VERY lost somewhere.
Haha, but I fooled her. I am UNDER the couch and they’ll never find me.
Oops, they did. I am banished to the bedroom. Oh, well, I tried. And I’m not going to catch these crawlers. NOT ME. Some kitties would have fun chasing down these little brown thingys and whacking them upside the head but NOT ME.
What’s a drywood termite anyway?
Don’t try to cajole me by holding paws. I want back on the couch!
How awful, we have a company come out and spray for termites every year and do inspections.
Well, this is a rented apartment and it’s not easy to get the owner to deal with things because he’s out of town often and we don’t really want to do a tenting and have to leave home with me in tow in the middle of hot summer weather! Personally, I would love a hotel and room service, haha, but not mama. Not right now anyway. She just keeps spraying and hoping…
YUCK on termites! They are very hard to get rid of and that’s about all I know – we DO hope we don’t ever see them here though. We are at the edge of a big woods so lots of EATABLES for terminates all around. Thanks for writing a poem on my POETIC THURSDAY blog today!!!!! It’s nice to meet you LouLou – you live in one of my Mom’s favorite-est places!!
Hugs, Sammy
Oh, Sammy, I would not wish termites on my worst enemy. And I hope you are getting better! Thank YOU for being inspiration for poetry. Always a good start to the day. And I’m glad your mama loves Rome. It’s easy to love. Or maybe she loves France? We sort of move around…
OOooh – you need ME there!!! I am the most ferocious bug-chaser EVER!!!
I’ve only heard bout Formosan termites that Mama had in every place she lived in New Orleans. They are supposedly the meanest. The city of New Orleans even had a government expert come down to do a study and figure out the best way to rid the city of them (that was a lotta years ago). Unfortunately he didn’t have time to come up with the solution because somebody killed him while he was there. A good reason to stay in France. Formosan termites and killahs!!!
Someone killed the expert????? WOW. Maybe, Mya’s mama, you’ll find a solution, haha.
They sound awful. I had no idea there were wet wood and dry wood kinds of termites. I wish I had a suggestion, but we only had termites once ( not sure which kind) and we called the exterminator.
Well, they APPEAR to be backing off because mama sprays and paints some clear something everywhere and it’s helping.
Bugs are icky!
We hope you find a solution soon..
Nasty ole bugs…
Noodle and crew
Yep, they are pretty tenacious.
Well LouLou they look too small to be of any innerest to us kitties in da furst place huh?. As always, we luv your fotos. But alas, we have no advice or help on da subject. We do know dat treatin’ fur termites is very spensice, but once it’s done, it kills all da bugs fur years s it’s purrobably worht every penny. We sure hope ya’ll figger somethin’ out soon. we’ll keep our ears open and let ya’ know ifin we find out anythin’. Somwhere mommy has some books on treatin’ this kind of stuff naturally. We’ll have her check in a bit. Good luck.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Raena
Yes, well, they were around last year for a short while and the man who does the treatment came out and said a figure that made us gasp and we are only renting here so mama kept painting the liquid on the floorboards and they went away. But thank you for looking in your sources. It is VERY $$$$$$ to do the clean up and we can’t go anywhere while they do it even if we could pay for it. They have ME to worry about.
Yes, it cost a $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Mama is spraying….. that’s with a ‘p’, okay?