Termidor and Premise are water based, odourless and of low hazard to humans, dogs, cats and other mammals. Both are registered as a low hazard Schedule 5 insecticide with a CAUTION notation on the registered label. Fipronil - the active ingredient in Termidor, has been used in the USA and Australia since 1995 for flea and tick control on millions of cats and dogs.

Termidor and Premise do NOT have an obnoxious odour or emit airborne residues or fumes. Termidor and Premise represent modern technology... they are NOT organo-chlorine or organo-phosphate pesticides.

Dursban and Biflex have a strong repellency action to deter foraging termites. Whereas Termidor and Premise are non-repellant to the termites. Termites can enter the treated soil barrier without detecting the Termidor or Premise chemical. The repellant nature of Dursban and Biflex mean the termites can detect and move along the soil barrier seeking a gap to gain entry into the building.

Biflex Aqua, The new water based termicide and insecticide from FMC is manufactured with the same bifenthrin active as Biflex Aqua, except it's practically odourless, which means it can be used indoors and outdoors. It's this level of convenience, where one product virtually does it all that's winning over time-poor pest controllers in their droves.

Intrigue being a dust is not an ideal product, as some termite activity areas are moist causing the Intrigue dust to coagulate. This is where the skill and judgment of the termite controller is important to assess any high activity areas as being sufficiently dry to be treated with Intrigue dust. Intrigue should be used in conjunction with a complete chemical soil barrier treatment using Termidor or Premise.

An insect growth regulator affects termites by stopping the moulting process required for the termites to grow. As the worker termites die off, the termite colony declines to the point where it can no longer sustain itself, ultimately leading to it's collapse and elimination.

Premise has been used as soil treatment barrier against termites for more than six years in Australia (more than eight years in the USA) with excellent results for long term termite control. We are not aware of any significant problems during this period.

Premise will act to kill termites, in the higher concentration treated soil areas abutting the building. With Premise, termites that forage in the lower concentrated treated soil areas, will become disorientated, stop feeding, and are fatally diseased by natural fungi and micro-organisms in the soil.

Intrigue termite dust is classified as a schedule 5 insecticide with a CAUTION notation on the registered label - indicating it is of low hazard to people, dogs, cats and other mammals. Exterra and Sentricon termite baits are not scheduled as hazardous products.

All the above termite baiting systems are subject to regular inspection and monitoring by the termite controller. The larger the number of termites that consume the bait, the quicker and more certain is the termite colony elimination process. It is usual to reinspect the bait stations and the buildings and surrounds every month to reposition, reapply or replenish the bait, if necessary. This process is labour intensive so that the long term cost of the monitoring / baiting system may accumulate out of hand before the chance of success or otherwise, is realised.

Intrigue termite dust can be applied directly to live termites in their mud tube galleries or infested timbers, whereas the Sentricon baits are placed in their in-ground bait stations after removal of the termite infested timber therein... which involves major disruption of the termites and thereby cause them to avoid the in-ground Sentricon bait station, entirely.

Sentricon was developed for use against American termites, a different species that are not as disturbance-wary as some of the destructive Australian termite species. This serious short-coming is overcome by the patented Exterra Termite Stations where the timber is aligned around the cylinder such that the bait can be inserted without such disturbance of the termites present.