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Termites are major detrivores, particularly in the subtropical and tropical regions, and mostly feed on dead plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, or soil, and significally known as pests that can cause serious structural damage to buildings, crops or plantation forests. Their habit of remaining concealed often results in their presence being undetected until the timbers are severely damaged and exhibit surface changes. Once termites have entered a building they do not limit themselves just to wood, also damaging paper, cloth, carpets, and other cellulosic materials.
Insepro Sdn Bhd is an authorized installer for EXTERRA TM product that is anti-termite pest control using technique known as Termite Interception and Baiting System.
Termite Interception and Baiting System
Inspecting For Termite Infestation
To bait termites effectively, they must first be intercepted at selected points. Normally termites continually forage for food in the earth around their nest. Depending on the termite species, points of termite interception may be located both in the ground around the building and inside the building above ground.If a food substance is placed at each interception point and there are termite colonies nearby, they will eventually find and begin to consume the food at one or more of these points.
Termites usually avoid exposure to unfavourable environmental conditions. They tend to remain hidden in tunnels in earth and wood.
Presence Of Termite Infestation Identified
The presence of termite can be visualize by their tracks with tubing made of faeces, plant matter, and soil. Sometimes these shelter tubes will extend for many metres. These tracks will lead to their colonies, normally situated outside the building.
The first step in the termite baiting process is the placement of specially designed EXTERRA TM Stations at carefully selected points in the ground around the outside of your building and when necessary inside and above ground. Pieces of nontoxic food that termites are known to prefer to eat are placed in the Stations at the time of Station installation. This substance is referred to as an Interceptor.
The EXTERRA TM Station is designed to help make sure that termites searching for food in the area of the Station are able to easily find and begin feeding on the Interceptors. Termites that find the Interceptors and begin feeding in the Station are referred to as having been intercepted.
Installation Of EXTERRA TM Station
1. Above-Ground Station
Here we see an installed Above-ground Station under termite attack. Above-ground Stations are not always installed however in certain circumstances they can be very useful. In fact, Above-ground Stations are the preferred approach when termites are in your home. Above-ground Stations are also very useful when ground access around the outside of a building makes In-ground Stations too difficult to install.
Above-ground Stations are used only when a point of termite attack in the building can be located. Bait is placed in the Station when it is installed.
Above-ground Stations can speed up the process of colony elimination. After the termite colony is eliminated, they are removed.
2. In-Ground Station
The unique open cavity design of the Exterra In-ground Station allows the Interceptors lining its perimeter to be visually inspected during regular inspections for termite attack without being removed from the Station. And the Interceptors are also not removed or disturbed during the bait application process. Instead of removing the Interceptors to replace them with bait at this critical
moment in the baiting process like some other systems, the open cavity EXTERRA TM Station design allows bait to be added to the Station without removing the Interceptors.
During baiting the open cavity is filled with bait where the bait fully contacts the exposed inner surfaces of the termite infested Interceptors. Because the bait used with EXTERRA TM is preferred by termites even more than the Interceptors, they quickly switch from feeding on the Interceptors to feeding on the bait.
3. In-Concrete Station
In-Concrete Station are used only when the building area are covered by solid surface such as concrete. It is function same as In-ground Station that is as intercepter outside the infected building.
Termite Intercepted
Once termites have been intercepted, the actual process of baiting them at the infested Stations begins. Unlike some other termite management techniques that require aggregating large numbers of termites to work, the interception of even a few termites in an EXTERRA TM Station is sufficient to start the baiting process.
