Exterra 4

Requiem Termite Bait

Large animals have bony interior skeletons. But insects, including termites, have an exterior skeleton, referred to as an exoskeleton. As they grow, termites must shed their exoskeleton to form a new replacement exoskeleton. This exoskeleton replacement process is called moulting. A failure to complete the moulting process is always lethal to termites. This means that a toxicant that stopped termites from successfully completing the moulting process would be a reliable termite bait toxicant. The toxicant contained in Requiem Termite Bait, the bait component of Exterra, has this exact action. But how does ‘t act slowly enough to eliminate the colony?

After consuming Requiem, a termite is killed when ‘t moults. However, not all of the termites in a colony moult at the same time. Depending on the time of year, it can take from six weeks to four months on average for Requiem to whittle down to a small number the group of surviving colony members as more and more members that have consumed Requiem eventually moult. Finally when only a few colony members are left, the colony normally collapses and is eliminated. Because the whittling down occurs so slowly, it ‘s almost impossible for the then surviving colony members to identify and avoid the substance that is causing the slow, gradual loss of other colony members.

Kills Slowly But Stops Damage Quickly

Requiem can take up to several months to completely eliminate a termite colony. However, it can drastically reduce the rate of wood consumption of a colony within four to six weeks after the colony starts consuming Requiem. This ‘s because while termites may take several months to moult and die after consuming Requiem, its active ingredient has other (too complicated to explain here) effects on termites that begin to occur within a few weeks of when termites first start to consume it. These effects interrupt a termite’s ability to consume wood. This means the amount of damage a termite colony is doing to a building it is infesting is reduced well before ‘t actually eliminates the colony.

High Powered Active Ingredient n low in Toxicity

The active ingredient used in Requiem is very powerful. So powerful that ‘t needs to be present in Requiem only at a very low concentration. This concentration is so low that the amount of Requiem needed to completely fill one Exterra Station (400 grams) actually contains less than one-half of one gram of toxicant. But the active ingredient is low in toxicity to humans.

But how can the active ingredient in Requiem be so effective in killing termites yet so low in toxicity to humans? Because the active ingredient has an action only against animals that moult and humans do not moult! As mentioned earlier, the active ingredient in its pure, concentrated form is less toxic than table salt.