| The Exterra
Interception and Baiting Method
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| Some other
termite baiting systems disturb termites feeding in their stations whenever
they are inspected or baited. This is because their station design requires
that Interceptors must be removed and reinserted during inspections and removed
and replaced with bait when the station is actually baited. With Exterra this
is not the case. Little or no disturbance at any time. Period. But how?
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Extern Above-Ground
Station In Place
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Because most
types of toxicants are quick acting, meaning they kill an insect soon after the
insect contacts or consumes it. A quick acting toxicant placed in a termite
bait would cause the immediate death of any termites that found and started
consuming the bait. Other colony members of the now dead termites arriving at
the bait looking for food would discover their dead nest mates. These newly
arriving termites would quickly realize that the bait was causing the death of
their nest mates. These termites and all their other nest mates would then
instinctively avoid consuming the bait. This would mean the bait had killed
some termites but had failed to eliminate the colony. How can this
colony-protective instinct be successfully defeated?
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Exterra Station
Unique Design
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| The unique
open cavity design of the Exterra Inground 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 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 is preferred by termites even more than the
Interceptors, they quickly switch from feeding on the Interceptors to feeding
on the bait. This low disturbance Station design and baiting method used with
Exterra is so revolutionary, its patented here in Australia.
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To date the
best strategy developed is to select a toxicant for use in the bait which acts
slowly. If a toxicant acts slowly enough, termites consuming the toxicant
containing bait are able to leave the Station before being affected by the
toxicant. Optimally, these termites are able to return to the colony where
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| When
Above-ground Stations Make Sense
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| If termites
are actively attacking your home, experience shows that many species of
Australian termites are best dealt with using Above-ground Stations, sometimes
exclusively. Exterra Above-ground Stations can be invaluable because they allow
your termite problem to be dealt with more quickly, right at the point of
termite attack - right now. This can mean a significant decrease in the time
between Exterra System installation and colony elimination.
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Termites Avoiding a
Quick-Acting Toxicant Bait
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in
keeping with their colony duties they deliver food back to other colony
members. Food that just happens to be toxicant-containing bait. If the toxicant
'n the bait works slowly enough, the colony is unable to learn to avoid eating
the bait because they can't connect the death of more and more colony members
with the consumption of the bait. The slow (but not too slow) speed of action
of the termite bait toxicant used with Exterra (plus other attributes) makes it
an optimal termite bait toxicant.
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| Key Three -
Choosing The Right Toxicant
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| Almost
any type of insecticide will kill termites if they consume it. However few
toxicants can reliably eliminate a termite colony. Why is this the case?
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