From: JoeD 
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair alt.consumers.pest-control misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Confused about possible termite infestation
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:30:47 GMT

I was wondering if the follwoing is generally true. Please remember I 
live in the NYC area so I am assuming that there is only one type of 
termite here.
The guy who is repairing the damage in my neighbor's house said, even if 
an extermanitor treats the house by injecting chemicals around the 
paremeter, any termite nest  with a queen established above the ground 
in the house will not be destroyed. The termites will continue to feed 
moving up into the house until they have no more wood. He says that is 
why they found a large number termites in the house  even though that 
house was treated some 2 years earlier..

When I asked several exterminators the same question, they said this 
doesn't happen. The nest (this area) is always below the ground and that 
the whole nest will be destroyed all the way up into the house.