The most effective form of pest control is fumigation. In this, a gas is pumped into your house, where it stays for an hour or two. This gas is poisonous and will kill anything that is still in the house, so you will need to take out all your plants and animals. You will also need to put your food in special bags designed to keep the fumigating gas out of it, since the organic material could absorb it. the last thing you want to do is ingest poison. Also, in order for your house to be air-tight enough for the gas to be contained, it has to be wrapped in a giant plastic fumigating bag. While fumigating is one of the most effective form of pest control in Los Angeles, the difficulty of performing a fumigation means that it should only be used in the worst cases. Moe than likely Los Angeles pest control experts will want to do a drill and inject treatment. A small hole is drilled into termite-riddled wood. Pesticide is then pumped into the hole. The pesticide flows through the tunnels, producing poisonous gasses and dangerous puddles that kill all nearby termites. This technique is quite effective for localized problems, but involves dealing with poison. A new but fairly powerful alternative is using microwave radiation to bake the termites. Rather than injecting pesticides, a metal probe capable of producing high energy microwaves is inserted into the infected wood. When the switch is flipped, the microwave rush outward and boil the water that is in the termites.