Dr Don's Termite Pages

Termites?

Thirteen long years ago, this site began as a dorky dawn-of-the-web homepage telling you facts about me and the things I do (I work with the critters). But people didn't want that and weren't dropping by to offer interesting jobs ( or challenging consultancies, sigh, always after a good challenge!), they just wanted fast answers to questions. So, the site grew over the years, mostly because this is a lot better than saying the same things over and over again on the telephone!

Not Really Don For you, pages of stuff put together from all my email answers to people around the world. You can learn lots about termites, what they are and what they do, about avoiding termite problems, how to get rid of termites if you have them and how not to get rid of termites. There's no FAQ as such (that project died, but may be resurrected), so you'll have to dig around. A lot. Have fun!

Now is a really good time to have your home professionally inspected. Or if you're really brave, infallible & rich, do your own.

It is Autumn (Fall) in Southern Australia (yes, I probably live on a different continent to you) and it's a great time see the termites flying, to try to keep a garden growing nearly a decade into a drought, and to keep rebuilding my house. These are just some of the things with which I'm trying to catch up. Replies may take two days or longer.

It's only days to the Olympics. I wonder what will happen? . .

When I started this site, Alta Vista (the original search tool) only indexed 35 pages that included the word "termite" in the whole of the known web. Now there are well over a million of them and thousands of sites claiming to offer good advice. Be wary out there.

Finally, these pages contain absolutely no naughty bits (termites are very proper, except perhaps for their tendencies for cannibalism and proctodeal feeding Oops! A big word snuck in. Find it here. I hope that somewhere here you find what you are seeking, if not, please tell me what's missing!

I'd like to make these pages a lot better, but answering email questions, work and my DIY home renovations get in the way. And yes, there are termites in my yard. Three species. Two subterraneans and a dampwood. Haven't found any drywoods yet.

When these pages began, back at CSIRO, each month only about a thousand people would drop by.
Now the site averages well over 5,000 crude hits per day. WebCounter says that you are this page's visitor number . I wish more than a million people would also read my research papers!
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