Sentricon® Termite Colony Elimination System
Sentricon® Termite Colony Elimination System destroys
the termite colony.
Termites have been attacking your home for years. The
Sentricon Termite Colony Elimination System lets you
go after their home – the colony. Colony elimination
is the most effective way to deal with termites.
The Sentricon System is the best approach for protecting
structures from subterranean termites because it eliminates
the colony, while being non-disruptive to property owners.
The Sentricon System is proven, long-term protection
against termite damage.
How the Sentricon System works
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The Sentricon System takes advantage of natural termite
behavior. Worker termites constantly forage far and
wide, looking for wood to feed the colony. When they
find food, like the monitoring device in a Sentricon
station, they leave special scent trails to summon their
nestmates to the food source.
Once your Lewis Cobb termite professional discovers
termites feeding in the station, the monitoring device
is replaced with a Baitube* device containing Recruit*
IV termite bait. In doing so, the technician initiates
the exclusive Self-Recruitment* procedure that takes
advantage of the natural behavior of termites to spread
the bait throughout the colony. The bait contains a
substance that stops the molting process so termites
can’t grow.In most cases, as short as 90 days,
we can achieve complete elimination. (Click
Here to learn more about the installation & monitoring
process)
Subterranean Termites take no vacation…they’re
hungry year ‘round.
There are more than two thousand species of termites.
Only about seventy species are frequent enough invaders
of humans’ structures to be called pests. The most
damaging are roughly twenty species we call "subterranean"
termites because of their nesting and foraging habits.
The Eastern Subterranean Termite is by far the most
common, widest distributed and most damaging in the
United States. Subterranean termites build their nests
in the soil, in tree stumps or fence posts, and rely
mainly on the soil for their source of moisture.
Formosan Termites are an exotic species accidentally
introduced to the U.S. from China and other far Eastern
countries and has now established a presence in the
Central Florida area. Their habits are very much like
those of our common subterranean species. Same family,
different genus. They are a little bigger and are much
more aggressive invaders, forming larger colonies (often
two-million termites or more!). Formosan termites can
establish secondary colonies in very moist wood of upper
stories of buildings because they don’t require
soil contact if there is a near by constant moisture
source.
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