French Quarter Termite Bait Units

ID: 462 ~ Source: Image Courtesy of the United States Department of Agriculture's Formosan Termite Image Library.

This file appears in: Termites and Historic Preservation

These bait units are installed around the perimeter of buildings receiving treatment for termites. Checked on a regular basis, if termites have, quite literally, taken the wooden bait, a pesticide is added.

This file appears in: Termites and Historic Preservation

Termites and Historic Preservation

By Alison Laurence, Sarah Waits & University of New Orleans History Department

While termites have lived and thrived in the world for over two hundred million years, the truly destructive subterranean Formosan termites did not arrive in New Orleans until after World War II,…