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It
all begins with fipronil. Fipronil is the active
ingredient in Termidor, and it works quite differently
from other termiticide active ingredients. It also
manages termite colonies in 3 months or less (that's
significantly faster than the best bait system).
Here's why.
Termites
don't know it's there
Many
termiticides are repellents. This means that they
keep termites away from a treated area, rather than
killing them.
But
if there's a gap in the treatment - maybe someone digs up
a flowerbed and breaks the line of defense - the repellent
effect fails and the termites get through. It
happens frequently, and your only recourse is to have your
house re-treated.
Termidor
is non-repellent. Termites can't smell it, see it or
feel it. Since they don't know it's there, they
forage freely in a treated area. The '100%
effective' results begin here.
Kills
individual termites two ways
First,
and like other leading liquid termiticides, Termidor is
lethal to termites when they ingest it (since they don't
know it's there, they ingest it readily). Second,
and unlike all other termiticides, Termidor is lethal by
contact. This means that termites don't even have to
ingest it to die from its effects.
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