My cousin brought me a handcrafted wooden statue from her trip to South Africa. As she was dusting today, my wife noticed that there was fresh sawdust lying on the shelf under the statue. Someone is living in and burrowing through the thing! What can I do to save my statue and potentially my wood-frame house?
2006-12-25 13:28:52 · 12 answers · asked by J K 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
You are correct in assuming that your wood home may be in danger.
Soak the object in gasoline or kerosene or Lindane, if you have access to pesticides. Wrap it in a plastic bag immediately untill you can disinfect it.
I hope they have not escaped int0 your home.
2006-12-25 13:32:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My boyfriend is South African (actually Afrikaans) he speaks Afrikaans at home with his parents and I join at times. Maar my Afrikaans is baie sleg! When we are together we speak English as my Afrikaans is not perfect and I get frustrated easily if I can't say a specific word but he teaches me well and I am getting better each day. We met in England but that doesn't make a difference to what language we speak, the fact is I am not fluent in Afrikaans. I guess I am the problem LOL but like I say I am learning more and more. If it was the other way around, I'd also have wanted him to learn my language. I love Afrikaans, it's just getting the hang of it. Also being in the UK most of the time where Afrikaans is not spoken unless you know South Africans, it's harder to get to grips with the language. So when I go to SA in December I will try and just speak as much Afrikaans as I can.
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2014-09-24 08:34:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The easiest thing to do is call a pest control company, large or small, I am quite sure they would treat the statue for free and not damage it any further. Sounds like you have termites in it. There is a bunch of chemicals that will kill these also. Termite companies use an electric high voltage zapper that goes in the holes and frys the little buggers. The safest way for you and your statue is in the first sentence, good luck.
2006-12-25 13:37:06 · answer #4 · answered by Robert D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh................you may want to call the department of health to see if your cousin brought in something that is going to affect the whole united states.
In the mean time....I'd put the whole statue in a ziploc type plastic bag to suffocate it. Save the species so it can be examined to make sure we are all not at risk.
2006-12-25 13:31:30 · answer #5 · answered by COOKIE 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they may be termites, they may also be powder-post beetles, which leave small pinholes in the wood and small piles of sawdust outside......
the answers about freezing the statue are correct; that has worked for me down here in the tropics; the big plastic zip lock bag filled with poison may also work, although its unlikely the gas will pass into the tunnels in the wood and get to the buggers.
2006-12-27 00:39:24 · answer #6 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YOU HAVE TERMITES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, put the item in a garbage bag and place in a freezer for 3 days. This will kill the termites.
I lived in haiti and was given something that had termites and this is what was recommended. It worked.
Good luck. You may want to contact an exterminator just incase they've moved on to bigger and better things like your house!!
2006-12-25 13:32:19 · answer #7 · answered by celizabeth 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Freeze it. The cold will kill the bugs. I do not know, however, if that will damage the statue or not. If it does, it shouldn't be that bad.
2006-12-25 13:32:24 · answer #8 · answered by man_of_mustard 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i would "tent it", cover it with a plastic bag and spray some bug spray it in there,close the bag and let it sit for a few days, then take it out and clean it
2006-12-25 13:34:14 · answer #9 · answered by jokerswild 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WRAPPED IT WITH PLASTIC WRAPS AND PUT IT AWAY FOR 6 MONTHS.... THEN PUT IT UP AGAIN .. BUT CLEARLY U DO HAVE TERMITES AT UR HOUSE!!
2006-12-25 14:43:07 · answer #10 · answered by Ephradu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋