PESTS:
TERMITES
Termites
are increasingly causing major structural
damage to buildings throughout Australia.
With the home so often the major family
asset, and termite infestation being
essentially uninsurable, homeowners are
desperately seeking reliable protection
against termintes.
Termites
can be found throughout mainland
Australia. They live in a central nest or
colony, from which they forage over large
areas in search of timber, their staple
food. Once a source is found, working
termites strip and partially digest the
timber before returning to the nest to
feed the colony. some colonies may contain
over a million hungry termites, and the
timber used to build homes provides a very
attractive meal. Attacking in large
numbers, termites can feed to the point of
leaving only a thin timber veneer, and
this can happen in a matter of
months.
Since
the banning of older but effective
chemicals in the 1980's as a result of
environmental concerns, there has been a
frenzied search for a termite control
product (termiticide) that offers real,
long-term control with fast initial kill,
no smell and low toxicity to humans and
pets.
Most
termiticides are repellent and rely on
keeping termites away from treated
structures. While such products are toxic
to termites, very few of the termites are
actually killed before being repelled by
the termite barrier. As a result, termites
remain alive and actively seek gaps in the
barrier in order to gain access to the
building. They do this day after day, year
after year until they find a way
through.
Innovative
Pest Consultants uses only termiticides
that are non repellent to termites. This
means that they cannot detect the product
and will not avoid the treated area. As a
result, termites continue to randomly
forage through the soil until they
encounter the termiticide and pick up a
lethal dose. The termiticide is applied as
a continuous chemical soil zone around and
under the home. Termites come in contact
with the termiticide at the edge of the
treated zone as they tunnel through the
soil toward the home. At this point, the
termiticide is at its lowest
concentration. Those termites that do not
imediately continue tunnelling into the
treated zone will survive long enough to
transfer the termiticide ro others in the
colony through normal feeding and
grooming. This is devastating to other
termites not directly exposed to the
termiticide treated zone, and indeed may
wipe out an entire colony.
Those
termites which continue to tunnel into the
treated soil will encounter a more lethal
dose and die quickly. This means that the
termiticide application works two ways -
to kill termites that attack timbers in
your home while allowing other infected
termites to return to the next and infect
the colony. Thus, the treatment begins
working immediately to eliminate existing
termites infestations in buildings, and
also provides long term protection against
future termite activity.
For
more information on the termiticides used
by Innovative Pest Consultants, please
download a PDF version of the product
information for either of the products
below.
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TimberSure,
now available through
Innovative Pest
Consultants, offers you
total termite protection
with a full timber
replacement
warranty
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Pest Solutions
PO
Box 2083, South Plympton
South Australia. 5038.
Phone 1800 503 394
(08) 8297 4981
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