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North Carolina's Formosan Termite Program

Tree Injection Treatments - September 2004

Based on the the results of the field and light trap surveys, the second part of the control program involving treatment infested trees was conducted on September 27, 2004. Originally four trees were to be treated but in the course of further inspection, two more infested trees were found and subsequently treated.

 
scoping FST nest in the tree Ed Freytag of the New Orleans Mosquito and Termite Board uses a fiber-optic scope to examine a Formosan termite nest within a tree.
Larry Conner of the NCDA-SPC&PD drills injection holes in an infested tree. drilling infested tree
injecting the tree Ed Freytag injects Premise® as a foam into the base of an infested tree at a residence.

Dead/dying Formosan termites forced out of the tree with the insecticidal foam.

termites in foam
recording GPS coordinates of stations Dead Formosan termites left behind at the base of the tree after the foam dissipates.

Premise ® is a registered trademark of Bayer AG: Bayer Environmental Science, Montvale, NJ

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or products or discrimination against other similar products or companies which were omitted.]

 

All photographs taken by M. Waldvogel, Dept. of Entomology, NCSU.

 
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