Saturday, January 10, 2009

Termites In The Park!

19 October 2007: A number from several hundred to several million micro-organisms have invaded our playground and worse, our home sweet home! These annoying creepies cause significantly serious structural damage to our houses, crops and plants. Our resident expert and committee member, Steven Ng, kindly took on the task to eradicate the termites in the playground for free. He recommended proper preventive treatment to be carried out to stop these colonies from “invading” our house and causing more permanent damage. EPRA is deeply indebted to Steven for his efforts.

Subterranean Termites:
The Baiting Systems 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 Station, they leave special scent trails to summon their nest mates to the food.
The bait contains a substance that stops the molting process so termites can’t grow. Eventually, all the termites in the colony will be affected by the bait and die.
Garden Termites:
The product is non-repellent and does not kill immediately on contact. Thus, it allows the termite to pick up the chemical and yet have sufficient time to transfer the chemical back to its colony. The product belongs to a new group of chemical compound called Phenyl Pyrazole. It works as a stomach poison after it is ingested by the termite.
Termites are unable to detect the presence of this chemical and therefore will penetrate the treated soil and pick up the chemical on their body. This will affect them later and will make them weaker whilst they pass some of the chemicals to the rest of the colony. This is why we called it “Colony Management”.

For more information, kindly contact Steven Ng “Mr. Pestbuster” at +6012 325 7623