My property currently has a lot of downed trees, logs lying on the ground, piles of trash, you name it. It was a foreclosure and this is my first season here.
In preparation to brush hog down the tall grassy fields, I’ve been going around picking up sticks and logs from the fields. A few of the logs were heavily infested with termites. Now, there is no shortage of excellent termite habitat here, so I’m not concerned about my home per say.
However, I was planning on building some dead hedge fencing for native insect habitat. I wasn’t planning on using any termite wood for this, in fact I kept that in a separate pile farther from my home than the rest of the sticks and logs I’m saving for the dead hedges, and I’m going to burn it asap. But there is surely other patches of termites. Some of these piles of dead wood are as tall as me and 20 feet wide on an incline so they don’t get much sun. I was reading that termites are attracted to dark cool areas.
I was wondering if building the dead hedges would be a bad idea though, due to the termite activity in the area. Could it encourage a further infestation?
Does anyone have experience with this? I would appreciate any advisement!
