How to kill foreign termites/ pests?

Question

I have a wooden sculpture from Uganda. It seems to be being eaten from within by pests (termites?). How can I kill them? I don't want to take the scupture to a wood/plant expert in fear of infecting local plants (although I doubt the pests will migrate). Any ideas at all are welcome, please.

Answer 1

If you are near the southern US coast or california-hawaii  it will be easy to locate companies that use fumigation for drywood termite treatment..they will just place your piece at a job site and fumigate it.   If you are in an area that dry woods are not common you may have to locate one of the larger pest companies near you and see if they ever do fumigation.

If the piece is not too large you might just try wrapping it in black plastic and setting it in the sun for an hour or two