Advance Termite Baiting System
Whitmire's Advance Termite Baiting System is a state-of-the-art approach to termite control that doesn't require the injection of liquid termiticides into the soil, making it an ideal solution for applications where wells, cisterns, lakes, ponds, or high water tables make liquid termite treatment inadvisable, or for any application where the most environmentally friendly termite treatment is desired.
How Termite Baiting Works
Termite workers are constantly foraging for food, and when they find it, they dutifully carry it back to the colony so that all the members can be fed. The Advance Termite Baiting System uses the termites' natural habit of randomly foraging for food to attract them to bait stations, which are mounted flush with the top of the soil close to buildings being protected.
In the course of their random foraging, termites come across the highly-palatable, cellulose-based bait, and begin feeding on it. Not only that: They then tell the rest of the termites in their colony about their new discovery, and before you know it, hundreds or thousands of termites will be feeding on the bait and carrying it back to the nest.
That's when we pull a switcheroo on them, and replace the wooden bait they had been feeding on with a cartridge containing a slow-acting termiticide in a tasty (to a termite, at least) bait matrix. The termites, however, continue taking the bait back to their nest and feeding it to the other colony members, and eventually, the entire colony dies.
Speed and Cost or Termite Baiting
Termite baiting tends to be slower and slightly more expensive than other termite control methods. We recommend it as an option primarily when water, landscape, or construction factors make liquid treatments impossible or inadvisable.