Most termite baits are made out of the same materials your home is built out of – Timber. In ground termite baits are commonly installed in the grounds around the exterior of your home, in an attempt to attract termites to the timber installed in the stations. If termites are located in the stations during regular checks, a poison is then applied to the station with the goal of eradicating an entire termite colony and lowering the risk of a termite attack.

Let’s highlight that process again… Your home is made from timber, so you place timber around your home, however most homes have a far larger food source of timber than any termite baiting system could ever hope to contain. It’s like owning a Gingerbread House, and sprinkling a jar of gingerbread crumbs around it to protect it from ordinary sugar ants…

This is only the first stage of the termite baiting process. So once you’ve, installed, serviced and checked your stations, and then identified termite activity in one or more of the stations, you then need to introduce a DIFFERENT product, in order to kill off the threat. Let’s look at the feeding and eradication process, using the Gingerbread House again as our example.

So you’ve used the Gingerbread crumbs, to attract ants to your house of Gingerbread, and you’ve finally hit the jackpot. Ant’s are chowing down on the crumbs you’ve expertly spread about the place. The ants are hooking in, so then you decide to throw some chemically laced crumbs in with the original crumbs, in the hope they’ll stop what they are feasting on, to feed on a something else containing a poison. While this concept has some success, it’s far from reliable, and with your home on the menu, I’d recommend you look for a proven alternative which is where the Termiticide Rods have changed the game in the professional termite world. This is why we recommend that you don’t buy Termite Baits until you have armed yourself with this knowledge.

Sentricon ‘Always Active’ Termiticide Rods are a termite bait, which have been infused with a colony killing toxin, called Hexaflumuron. The Termiciticide Rods are non toxic to humans or domestic pets, and has been formulated to MORE palatable than timber…So lets head back to our gingerbread house.

This time, instead of throwing gingerbread crumbs about the house to keep the ants out, we’ll use a toxic icing. The icing is far more attractive to the ants than the gingerbread, and from the moment the ants begin to feed on it, they become dependent on it. They become unable to consume anything else, and continues it’s addiction to the very product which will kill off the entire colony. There is no need to do the old ‘bait and switch’, and hope that they don’t notice. Feeding continues undisturbed until the entire colony has been eradicated.

This is how the Sentricon ‘Always Active’ Rods work, there’s less chance of upsetting the feeding termites with inferior bait matrix, human error or contamination, and there’s less interruption to the stations. The Termiticide Rods are already doing their job before you’ve identified the termites in the station. It’s faster, simpler and easier to manage as a homeowner and a professional, and more successful. For someone looking for the simplest and most reliable form of termite baiting, it’s the only real viable choice for DIY Termite Baits.

So don’t just google DIY ‘Termite Baits’, and order the first DIY Termite Baits you can find, look carefully at the products and whether or not they contain the Termiticide Rods, like the Termicure ‘Active’ packs. 

If you have an existing baiting system installed at your home, then you may not have to go and buy an entire new baiting kit, as the Termitcide Rods can be retrifitted into many other systems such as Exterra, Termatrix and Nemisis.

So, don’t buy termite baits if you think you’re going to have a simple and cheap product to protect your home. Insist on spending a bit extra and getting the systems containing the termiticide rods…and keep your gingerbread house in one piece!

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With multiple, DIY Termite Bait products available to the public for DIY, it’s difficult to determine which products are tried and tested in the professional space. Termite Ninja, Enviro Bug, Termite Mansion, Green Baits, along with our Termicure range are all marketed for DIY use, but how does the homeowner know which ones are a viable, high quality option when even the professional products have been known to have quality problems with termite bait, and obtaining excellent feeding properties for termite colony eradication.

CHINA produces many products sold on the cheap in Australia, including termite bait. Unfortunately, while produced at low cost, many simply don’t work, which is why the professionals only use certain products which are commercially available. DOW AgroScience is one of the most reputable research and development companies on the planet in the termite and insect management. Dow has developed the Sentricon ‘Always Active’ Termiticide Rods, which are combined with the Termicure ‘Active’ System, and used within it’s own Sentricon Termite Bait Stations. The ‘Always Active’ termiticide Rods have revolutionised the process of termite baiting, by removing the active feeding phase. The ‘Always Active’ Rods contain the materials to attract AND Kill the termite colony, without the intervention of a professional to mix and apply a suitable termite Bait Matrix.

Sentricon has a huge following of Termite Professionals who have trained to install and manage the product. It is only available from select chemical suppliers such as Globe and Garrards to licensed professionals to keep the product exclusive. Ironically, while the ‘Always Active’ Rods are only commercially available to termite professionals, they are the most suitable termite baiting product for the DIY Termite Bait arena.

The development of the ALL IN ONE termite attractant/kill has removed the mixing and application stage from the termite eradication process, and even without checking or correctly servicing an installed ‘Always Active’ System, termites colonies are still able to be completely wiped out.

So before you go ahead and purchase a DIY Termite Bait from a very well marketed, but low quality DIY Termite Bait manufacturer, consider whether the products used, or the termite bait matrix supplied is commercially available to the professional termite market.

Termicure uses only Sentricon ‘Always Active’ Termiticide Rods for termite eradication, because it is the only product which is capable of eradicating an active termite colony without the full evolution of termite identification, bait matrix mixing and continual feeding. Even professionals don’t succeed with colony eradication every time, with success rates as low as 50%. Human error, poor quality bait products and bait matrix contamination are all major factors which contribute to the failure. The ‘Always Active’ termiticide rods remove all of the risk factors associated with human error, resulting in a far higher success rate.

So do your research on the products available with all of the DIY Termite Bait products before you buy…

Our recommendation is that only the products available to the professional market are going to be the reliable and consistent option.

Sentricon has been in the termite baiting market for decades, and has an excellent track record. The Sentricon ‘Always Active’ rods have been a game changer. The Sentricon termite bait stations are restrictive in that they are only able to contain ONE termiticide rod.

An advantage of the Termicure Termite Bait Stations for DIY Termite Bait use, is the ability to multi load the stations. This can be helpful when feeding termites have been located in a station, and an additional rod can be added so that there is no chance that a full rod can be consumed and then termites vacate the station before termite colony destruction.

There are many termite DIY Termite Bait systems available, but surprisingly, there are far fewer professional systems available, as professionals know that the products MUST be of a high quality to achieve colony control.

So, don’t be sold on the best marketed DIY Termite Bait System…. do your research nd stick with a product which is backed by a professional product.

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