> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Follett
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:29 AM
> 
> 
> On a project for a house museum I was told about termite 
> stations buried in the ground around the house that are 
> somehow checked for activity & when there is activity the 
> exterminators put poisons in the stations that are carried 
> back to the nest. Do you know if these are electronic 
> sensors, or does someone have to actually look in them? 

I'll usurp this one. We have lots of experience with termites round
about these southern parts.

Not electronic...manual. Filled with regular tasty wood. Untreated. When
you find that termites are gnawing on it, you put not so regular nasty
to termites wood in the station. They take that stuff into the colony
and decimate it.

It's a dual system...you treat the building with chemicals as typical,
then establish a perimeter early warning DEW line (cp in bc may know
something about that too) to detect future incursions and repel them
before they reach the building.

Sign me, 

Robot ants, robot ants
They go up and down my pants
With a knick-knack paddy-whack
Give the dog a bone...
Robot ants go marching home. 

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