Advance™ Termite Baiting System
What is the Advance Termite Baiting System?
The Advance Termite Baiting System is a “next generation” baiting system Mid-Georgia Pest Control uses for the monitoring and baiting of termites in structures. Individual termite baiting stations are place 10-20 feet apart around the perimeter of a structure and monitored quarterly. When and if termites are noticed in the stations, a bait cartridge is applied into the station, which is then fed upon by the termites. Here are a few images that detail the system.
What are some of the advantages of the Advance System?
Stations are only installed on the outside of the home, and there is no landscape disruption or invasive drilling to your home’s foundation as required by some other products.
There is low impact for the environment, family, and pets because the bait is locked in a secure station with no access by unwanted guests.
The system eliminates the entire colony or colonies attacking your home compared to liquid chemical treatments which only address parts of the colony.
Termites work the day shift, the night shift, weekends and holidays.
Termites work silently and invisibly, sawing into your floor joists, cutting into your wall studs, hollowing out the heart of your home and hiding the damage until it’s too late. One of the greatest hazards any homeowner faces is termites, which cause more damage each year than fires, storms, and earthquakes combined. Termites survive by eating wood, paper, fiberboard, cotton fabrics, and other cellulose products. If ignored, termites can actually threaten the structural integrity of your house, and this is where the danger lies.
Houses and other buildings provide termites with the ideal combination of warmth, moisture and food. Termites can find ways to enter your house that you’ve never thought of. They are small enough to gain entry into hidden areas of basements, crawl spaces, and concrete slabs, through openings as small as 1/32nd of an inch.
A. Termites can build mud tubes across many feet of concrete, brick, cinder block, treated wood, or metal termite shields into even the upper floors of a structure.
B. Termites eat wood from the inside out, often defying detection for years while doing extensive damage to the wood and threatening the integrity of your home.
Although small in size they are large in numbers. Termites congregate in enormous underground colonies that house hundreds of thousands to millions of individual termites. They are dispersed throughout the soil at feeding sites around your home and can forage hundreds of feet from their colony.
Termite survival depends on finding edible material to support the colony. Moving out from their colony, they tunnel through the soil in search of moisture and food. They forage around mulch beds, near air conditioner drip lines and below gutters. They also like tree stumps, decks, buried wood, construction material, and piles of firewood. A loose mortar joint, a small space around a drain pipe, or a settlement crack in the basement is all they need to gain entry to your home.
There are several clear indications of termite infestation. In the spring in most parts of the country and in the fall of others, reproductive swarmers emerge in great numbers . Sometimes, you may see them swarm, or you may only see signs that they have swarmed. Their wings break off after flight and you may find piles of wings that have dropped off. Often, you will miss the swarm, so be sure to look for other signs of damage to wood or visible mud tubes.
If you become aware of any of the signs of termite infestation, or your neighbors have termites, call your local Mid-Georgia professional immediately. Our trained professionals will inspect inside your home and around your home looking for areas that are vulnerable to termite infestation. We will examine areas where termites forage for moisture and food, giving special attention to conditions which are conducive to termite attack such as cracks, voids, and spaces where wiring and utilities pass through walls and slabs.
Typical Sites of Termite Activity
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What is Termidor?
Termidor is America’s first 100% termite solution. Termidor is a new type of termite control that for over 5 years has faced the stiffest tests that both US and foreign researchers could throw at it.
Without exception, Termidor passed with flying colors. In fact, no other termiticide in history has consistently returned “100% effective” results whenever and wherever it was used.
For you, “100% effective” means that you can now choose a termiticide that not only eliminates termites from your home or business for at least the next 5 years. It also gives you 100% peace of mind.
What makes Termidor different?
Just about everything, including the “transfer effect.” It all begins with fipronil. Fipronil is the active ingredient in Termidor, and it works quite differently from other termiticide active ingredients.
Many termiticides are repellents. This means that they keep termites away from a treated area, rather than killing them.
But if there’s a gap in the treatment — maybe someone digs up a flowerbed and breaks the line of defense — the repellent effect fails and the termites get through. It happens frequently, and your only recourse is to have your house re-treated.
Termidor is non-repellent. Termites can’t smell it, see it, or feel it. Since they don’t know it’s there, they forage freely in a treated area. The “100% effective” results begin here.
How does Termidor kill termites?
First, like other leading liquid termiticides, Termidor is lethal to termites through ingestion. Because they don’t know it is there, they ingest it readily. Second, unlike other termiticides, Termidor is lethal by contact. This means that termites don’t even have to ingest it to die from its effects.
“Transfer Effect” controls the whole colonyTermites are social insects that live in large, underground colonies. They feed each other primarily by passing food from mouth to mouth. They groom each other. They contact each other as they forage for food. And Termidor takes advantage of this social behavior. As well as eating Termidor, a termite will also unknowingly pick it up and carry it back to the colony on its body. Thus, every other termite it contacts, feeds or grooms will itself become a carrier, contacting and infecting others.
Because the fipronil in Termidor is slow-acting and allows the termite to continue its normal routine, it remains active long enough to transfer the termiticide to a large number of other termites in the colony before dying itself. Once a termite has ingested or contacted Termidor treated material with its body, it becomes a “carrier.” Every other termite it contacts will be infected…which in turn infects every other termite it contacts. This combination of ingestion, contact, and “transfer effect” (which is unique and puts Termidor in a category by itself) routinely provides 100% termite control. No exceptions. And although the Termidor effect on individual termites is initially slow, the overall colony management is fast.
How long does Termidor work?
Government and other tests in the US and abroad have shown that in almost 6 years there has been no break or reduction in Termidor’s effectiveness. These continuously monitored tests have involved all kinds of soil, widely varying climatic conditions (from New York to Hawaii), and several different species of subterranean termites. Bottom line, this means that you can count on at least 5 years’ worth of 100% termite protection when you choose Termidor.
Is Termidor safe?
Termidor is registered with the Environmental Protection Agency and is effective at very low application rates. Typically when your pest management professional applies Termidor, the active ingredient fipronil will be just 0.06%. That’s a lot lower than old fashioned termiticides and less than most insecticides. Since 1995, fipronil has been used globally for flea and tick control on millions of cats and dogs. Fipronil is also used around the world to protect food supplies. Since Termidor bonds to the soil, there’s no leaching through rainfall or irrigation.
Does Termidor smell?
No. Termidor has virtually no odor. Since it’s applied with water, there’s also no solvent smell.
Contact Mid-Georgia Pest Control today to make an appointment with a trained, certified Termidor professional.
