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"Leadrex" is what I use, mixed with water you need very little so start with a small bottle. I apply with spray can, holes in trees/wood (bok bok) with an injection needle. I had one place in the ground full of them. We removed the soil so the tunnels came clear which we splashed with a lot of this stuff. Never saw a termite there again. Good luck

 

Hello Norm, where I'm from in the South in the USA termites were so common I knew some of them personally. There are three things that are cheap and environmentally safe that will work. And I mean kill them "deader than last year's cotton stalks".

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One is Boric Acid. Considered safe and I'm sure available.
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Next is good to use with the Boric Acid added to it and that is the environmentally safe automotive anti freeze. Old style anti freeze is Ethylene Glycol and is toxic. Animals also love to drink it. The new style anti freeze is Propylene Glycol and is considered safe for the environment, humans and animals. It is not tasty to animals either. It is, however, very toxic to insects, including termites. It also kills the fungus that causes wood rot. I used to use a product call Stop Rot for rotten wood but now I use Propylene Glycol. Automotive parts stores sell it. Here you will have to read the label I would guess if they have the same help in the auto parts stores that they have in the hardware. It is here though because they have been using it in new cars for years. Don't mistake it for the orange Dexcool, (GM), type. Dexcool is newer than the green old style antifreeze but the Propylene Glycol is newer than that. Both have been out for many years but the Environmentally friendly is newer.
Propylene Glycol alone or Boric Acid alone or, better, both together is a sure fire boon for business for the termite funeral home.

Atom Bomb
Lastly, if they have really pissed you off and you want to "pound them in the ground without sharpening their feet", go to the PET fish store in Duma and hope they have, and they should, some Diatomaceous Earth. It's cheap. It is used in a filter for aquariums called a "Diatom Filter" that some serious fish enthusiast have. As you know there were many thick layers of the little diatom critters laid down by the oceans when we were still little kids. (Millions of years ago) All they left were there little microscopic very hard skeletons that look like little hairy critters when viewed under a microscope. To us they look like dust and are as safe as clean dirt. ANY insect that walks through the dusting of diatoms, picks them up on his skin, (exoskeleton), and the diatom eats through and the insect bleeds to death. Diatomaceous earth works on ants, roaches, termites, anything with an exoskeleton.
One more colloquialism, The three, Boric Acid, Propylene Glycol, and Diatomaceous earth, will "hit a termite on top of his head so hard it will break both his ankles". He will die.

 

We used the solignum for treating wood in the house before finishing and haven't noticed any issues.

Shawn