Hi, we're Woody & Stump!
We're termites as you might have noticed and we are just two of a much larger colony. Our sole purpose in life is to locate and devour wood (cellulose to be exact), while trying to avoid contact with the ants... right Stump? You humans have decided to build houses out of our favorite food, so we like to move in to your place just as soon as we can find a way. We can fit through some pretty small openings, like around plumbing pipes and cracks. Once we're in, we build and maintain a super highway system to your house.
Our biggest obstacle in life these days is to find food that is NOT protected by Emtec with the Sentricon System. If our colony eats that Recruit HD bait, we are ALL doomed, but so far we have been able to avoid that peril. If too many people start using Sentricon we will eventually become just another statistic, so we have come up with OUR reasons for you to NOT hire Emtec to protect your house from US. We know it will be hard for you to sleep at night knowing your house is at risk, but just think of poor ol' Woody and Stump before you hire those guys in the red shirts to seal our fate.
Woody and Stump have been all over our social media and on the radio, trying to talk homeowners out of the Sentricon® System. They'll tell you how hard termite life is, how they already have to fight off the ants, and how bad you'll feel if you and your neighbors protect your homes and leave them nowhere to go. Here is what real termites are up to.
Sentricon bait stations go in the ground around your home. Worker termites find the Recruit HD bait, eat it and carry it back to share with the colony, so the whole colony, queen included, is eliminated instead of just a few termites here and there. It protects your home around the clock, every day of the year, and it is the termite system we trust on our own homes. See our termite control page to learn more.
Woody and Stump are the two cartoon termites in Emtec Pest Control’s ads. You may have heard them on the radio or seen them on our social media, doing their best to talk homeowners out of protecting their houses from termites.
Yes. Ants are among termites’ main natural enemies and raid termite colonies for food, which is why Stump steers clear of them (and how he lost a leg). Ants in the yard are not termite protection, though: a colony can still reach your house.
Subterranean termites come up from the soil. They slip through small openings such as cracks in the slab and gaps around plumbing pipes, and they build mud tubes along the foundation to travel between the soil and the wood. See ants vs. termites for how to tell a termite swarmer from a flying ant.
Sentricon is a termite colony elimination system. Bait stations around the house hold Recruit HD bait, which worker termites eat and share with the rest of the colony, so it targets the whole colony, queen included, instead of a few termites at a time. More on our termite control page.
