"Termidor comes with
a longer warranty than other treatments, and for preventive treatments
does not require internal treatment."
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 colours. In fact, no other termiticide in history
has consistenly returned "100% effective" results whenever
and wherever it was used.
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
is a gap in the treatment - maybe someone digs up a flowerbed
and breaks the line of defence - the repellant effect fails and
the termites get thru. 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 do not know it
is there, they forage freely in a treated area. The 100% effective
results begin here.
First, and like other leading
termiticide, Termidor is lethal to termites, they ingest it (since
they do not know it is there, they ingest it readily). Second,
and unlike other termiticides, Termidor is lethal by contact.
This means that termites do not even have to ingest it to die
from its effects.
Termites are social insects
who 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 behaviour.
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.
But 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. 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.
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. But Termidor works slowly, letting termites contact
many others before dying themselves.
And although the Termidor effect
on individual termites is intentionally slow, the overall colony
management is fast: significantly faster than bait systems.
With Termidor, termites are
killed, dead. That's why there are no excuses. And a lot less
waiting ground.
Government and other tests in
the US and abroad have shown that in almost 6 years there have
been no break or reduction in Termidor's effectiveness. These
continuously monitored tests have involved all kinds of soil,
widely varying climatic conditions, and several different species
of subterranean termites.
Bottom line, this means that
you can count on at least 5 year's worth of 100% termite protection
when you choose Termidor. And unlike a bait system, Termidor gives
you a 100% protection from Day 1. There's no long waiting period
where termites are hopefully attracted to the bait, and the building
to be protected is left entirely defenseless.
Termidor is effective at a very
low application rates. Typically, when your pest management professional
applies Termidor, the active ingredient fipronil will be just
0.06%. That is 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 also used around the world to protect food supplies.
And since Termidor bonds to the soil, there is no leaching through
rainfall or irrigation.
Termidor has virtually no odor.
Since it's applied with water, there is also no solvent smell.
NO OTHER TERMITICIDE (SOIL
APPLIED OR BAIT) OFFERS THIS DUAL ACTION TERMITE SOLUTION. IT
GIVES TERMIDOR A SIGNIFICANT PERFORMANCE ADVANTAGE, AND INCREASE
THE RELIABILITY AND SUCCESS OF TERMITE TREATMENT.
World's
First 100% termite solution
"Transfer
Effect" Controls The Whole Colony
"Over
350,000 structures have been treated with Termidor in the USA
since March 2000, with less than 1% call-backs."
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