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Safety & Termite Elimination An Evolving Process by Jerry Cates Since the early 1980's, I've studied and tested safe ways to control and eliminate subterranean termites. My focus is on methods and materials that allow me to avoid exotic, toxicant termiticides and complicated, invasive methodologies. I measured success by two criteria: (1) risks to the applicator, the customer, the home and its environment had to be removed from the treatment equation, and (2) the program had to not only control, but utterly eliminate termite infestations. Over the years, I developed a safe, effective, termite elimination program that met those criteria. It works so well I back it up with a warranty as tough as any I've come across in the pest management industry. Is it cheap? No, not in the true sense of that word, but it is inexpensive. The more you learn, the more you'll like it. It will soon be easy for you to learn more, too, just by visiting this website... Stay tuned for a new bugsinthenews research series "Termite Encounters," that describes case histories of real-live Texas termite infestations and their control and elimination. Email: jcates@austin.rr.com Telephone: (512)331-1111 *Our 1-LOOK and TIAI devices are protected by several extant U.S. Patents; other patents are pending. EntomoBiotic, 1-LOOK, TIAI, and IRIM are trademarks of EntomoBiotics Inc. Bugs In The News is sponsored by EntomoBiotics Inc. a working environmental consulting and research company, conducting research in entomology, nematology, herpetology, and arachnology, while managing bugs and other pests, and serving Texas since 1980. This website was last updated on 10 March 2008. ©1999-2008 EntomoBiotics Inc. 8411 Columbia Falls, Round Rock, TX 78681-3539 Texas Snakes & Other Reptiles I. Introduction: II. Identification Keys: Identification Keys to Texas Snakes Snakes in Central Texas: Friend or Foe? III. Texas Lizards & Geckos Green Anole Lizard (Anolis carolinensis) III. Non-Poisonous Texas Snakes: Plains Blind Snake (Leptopyphlops dulcis dulcis) Blotched Water Snake (Nerodia erythrogaster transversa) Central Texas Whip Snake (Masticophis taeniatus girardi) Eastern Black-Necked Garter Stnake (Thamnophis cyrtopsis ocellatus) Eastern Hognose Snake (Heterodon platirhinos) Juvenile Texas Rat Snake (Elaphe obsoleta lindheimeri) Lindheimer's Rat Snake- July, 2001. ... Round Rock, TX. Lindheimer's Rat Snake- June 4, 2002. Found in the back yard of a home in suburban northwest Round Rock, Texas. Lindheimer's Rat Snake- May 12, 2003). Found in a chicken coop eating eggs at a farm near Eustace, Texas. Lined Snake- May, 2002. This small snake came from the grounds of a nursing facility near Temple, Texas. Red-striped Ribbon Snake- June 2, 2003... Georgetown Texas, near the San Gabriel River Texas Rat Snake- May 14, 2001. ... caught in deer netting in the back yard of a home in Georgetown, Texas. Texas Brown Snake (Storeria dekayi texana)- Sept. 2, 2002. Found near a home, about 1 mile from Round Rock Hospital Newborn Texas Brown Snake, 1 of 9 born on 9-20-2002, at approx. 8:45 a.m., to the snake found in Round rock on 9-02. IV. Poisonous Texas Snakes A. Coral Snakes (Family Elapidae) Texas Coral Snake (Micrurus fulvius tener) B. Vipers (Family Viperidae) 1. Copperheads & Cottonmouths (Genus Agkistrodon) Southern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix) Broad-Banded Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix liticinctus) Trans-Pecos Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix pictigaster) Western Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma) 2. Rattlesnakes (Family Crotalidae) a. Crotalus Rattlesnakes (Genus Crotalus) Western Diamond-Backed Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) Canebrake Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus atricaudatus) Mottled Rock Rattlesnake (Crotalus lepidus lepidus) Banded Rock Rattlesnake (Crotalus lepidus klauberi) Northern Black-Tailed Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus molossus) Mojave Rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus scutulatus) Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis viridis) b. Sistrurus Rattlesnakes (Genus Sistrurus) Desert Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus edwardsi) Western Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus tergeminus) Western Pygmy Rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius streckeri) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Click here to return to the Bugsinthenews main menu
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