What makes Termidor different?
It all begins with fipronil. Fipronil is the active ingredient in Termidor, and it works quite differently from other termiticide active ingredients. It also manages termite colonies in 3 months...or less. That's significantly faster than the best bait system. Here's why:
Termites don't know it's there.
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 defense - the repellant effect fails and the termites get through. It happens frequently, and your only recourse is to have your house retreated.
Termidor is non-repellant. 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' result begins here.
Kills individual termites two ways.
First, and like other leading liquid termiticides, Termidor is lethal to termites when they ingest it (since they don't know it's there, they ingest it readily). Second, and unlike all 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 colony.
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 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.
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.
Can be 2-6 times faster than a bait system.
Termidor's unique 'transfer effect' manages termite colonies a lot faster than bait systems. Typically, a Termidor treatment will provide 100% control of termites in three months or less. Baits can take from many months to several years to control the colony.
And remember: termite bait is not added to a monitoring station until termite activity is actually observed at that station (even when the bait active ingredient is added it's often as a slow acting insect growth regulator).
As well as taking time, this also leaves the possibility of termite damage to the structure being baited, even though no termite activity is detected at the outlying stations.
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