Orange Treatment For Termites
Wooden surface gets treated with oil and when termites get into the contact with this wood they die.
Orange treatment for termites. One is the most popular ways of orange oil usage is a spot treatment. Orange oil comes in insecticide solutions of different levels most between 1 and 6. When you find termite presence you will need to drill small holes in the surface you can use a drill for this purpose and inject the oil into the holes. Common sense dictates that orange oil treatments will not kill all the termites in any given medium to large sized drywood termite colony although some will undoubtedly be killed through its fumigation effect.
Orange oil treatment involves drilling holes and injecting the wood with the orange oil which will saturate the wood and get into termite tunnels. It contains 95 pure d limonene. One product that is often used to do this treatment is xt 2000. The treatment works best if the insect galleries are identified and treated.
Orange oil is an extract from orange rinds and is commonly used in cleaning solutions and food additives. Orange oil can be somewhat effective in treating drywood termites. Its effectiveness with drywood termites is due to the fact that they live and have colonies inside the wood that they are infesting. Termites are killed through 1 direct contact 2 breathing in the fumes 3 eating the poisoned wood.