It’s Great That You Haven’t Found Any Live Termites

Let’s Keep it that Way by Using One of Our DIY Termite Treatments

Coptos and Schedos, the two termites that do almost all the damage to Aussie buildings, nest in the soil or in hollow trees OUTSIDE buildings. So, if there are no termites inside your home and the termites that do almost all the damage to homes build their nests outside, it sure makes good sense to encircle your home with TermiTraps to stop them getting from where they are to where you don’t want them to be.

As Coptos and Schedos are pretty much spread over the whole of continental Australia, your risk is real — and Colony Killer Termite Bait is designed primarily to deal with especially these two Termites.

Since about 2001, mainstream termite treatment companies have been installing monitoring systems around homes as a simple but very effective method of reducing termites getting into houses/buildings because it works! As a DIYer, you can do this job as well — and cheaper.

There are Essentially Two Types of Termite Monitors

• those buried in the ground, and
• those placed above ground level.

Scouts looking for a new food source are highly likely to discover attractive timber in semi-sealed containers thoughtfully placed at 3-metre intervals around where they are snooping.

What is even more probable: a monitor/trap/station/aggregation device placed above soil level will get their attention sooner. Scientific trials have confirmed this.

Termites mostly find in-ground monitors by burrowing through the (usually) upper 100mm of soil until they pick up the traces of carbon dioxide emanating from decaying wood and they turn ‘upstream’ toward the source.

The effort required to do this is much greater than sending scouts up above the surface where they can traverse greater distances in a shorter time.

Placing the TermiTrap termite monitor on concrete paths against walls with openings over the gap in the expansion joint means the scouts moving along the joint are highly likely to encounter a station.

Or, placing a termite monitor over gaps between pavers or just anywhere in a garden puts it in the path of those scouts who begin searching above ground level on warm and humid summer evenings.

Why Specifically are On-Ground Termite Monitors Any Better at Intercepting Scouts?

One answer is that it takes less energy and, more distance can be covered by scouting above the soil. But the really incontrovertible fact is that every piece of timber that has ever been attacked above the foundations of a building has been found because termite scouts have left the ground to find it. Above ground, TermiTraps is up where the scouts are ‘looking’

The only place you wouldn’t use an on-ground station is on a lawn. This also means the time is taken and the energy cost to us humans is also much less for the installation procedure. No digging to fight roots and rocks.