Frank wrote:
NSN wrote:


What do you mean by "juvenile treatment"

Norm


Juvenile hormones keep the insects from maturing and they die without
reproduction.
Kills the colony.

Frank

Sentricon actually is chitin inhibitor...it keeps them from molting
properly thus killing them. The vast majority of the colony are all
workers, that all are juvenile which aren't allowed by the Queen and
King of the colony to mature, so they never will reproduce anyways. The
theory of Sentricon is as the work force dies out there is a population
crash of the colony, thus killing the colony. The downfall is that
Sentricon asks for up to 24 months to get control so if one were to call
the pest control company 6 months after the baits have been installed
they have dancing room of why termites are still active. Termidor for
example, stops the activity in a week or so and kills the colony within
3 months. If a new colony shows up in Sentricon baits, time will be
lost waiting for the 40+ termites to accumulate before the pest tech
replaces the monitors with the actual bait, then wait another 18-24
months for colony control hoping that another group from the same colony
is not attacking the house somewhere out of sight? With the termidor a
foraging termite gets into the treated zone and is dead in 3 days along
with his buddies he has contacted and in turn who they have mingled with
so no actual feeding line has actually gotten established.

Lar