Whether you have a termite problem right now or want to prevent one from ever happening, the Sentricon® system helps take and keep control of your home. Watch how Sentricon® offers complete termite protection and peace of mind.
THE #1 Stand-Alone Termite Solution
The Sentricon® system is the No. 1 brand in termite protection.1 Developed through extensive research on subterranean termite behavior, the Sentricon® system targets the entire termite colony.
Certified Sentricon Specialists® install Sentricon® stations in the soil in a protective ring around the perimeter of the home or structure. Termites eat the patented bait in the stations and share it with the rest of the colony, which eliminates the entire colony, including the termite queen.
How the Sentricon® System Works
Sentricon® is scientifically designed to eliminate the entire subterranean termite colony — including its queen. Never had termites? Keep it that way. Sentricon® can be installed to both eliminate and prevent termite infestations.
Termite Inspection
To start out, you should have a Certified Sentricon Specialist™ inspect your property for signs of termites. Leave it to the pros to leave no termite behind.
Sentricon® System Installation
Sentricon® is installed around your home. Your first step is having a Certified Sentricon® Specialist inspect your property for signs of termites. Are you eliminating a current colony or preventing a future one? Sentricon® can help you with either — or both.
Termites Eat the Bait
Termites eat the bait and share with the colony. Termites prefer the bait used in Sentricon® nearly 10 times more than wood. The active ingredient, noviflumuron, gets shared within the colony and prevents termites from maturing through molting.
All Termites Die, Including the Queen
When termites can’t molt to grow, they die. When the colony dies, the queen dies.
Your home gains continuous protection year after year with ongoing service from a Certified Sentricon Specialist and by simply keeping Sentricon® stations in place. Your home is protected 24/7 from any future infestations. Talk about real peace of mind.
Sentricon® has protected more than 4 million homes. Ready to start protecting your biggest investment? Schedule service with our northeast North Carolina termite professionals.
3D Comparison of the Sentricon® System vs Liquids
See how the Sentricon® system works and learn about the differences between Sentricon® and liquid treatments.
Table Comparing the Sentricon® system vs Liquid Treatments
| Sentricon® System | Liquid Treatments (Termidor, Premise, Altriset) | |
|---|---|---|
| Scientific studies documenting colony elimination | 60 | < 5 |
| Eliminate the termite queen | Routinely | Occasionally |
| Treatment is minimally-to-non-disruptive to home, lawn, and landscaping | Routinely | Occasionally |
| Treatment effectiveness does not degrade over time | ✔ | |
| Tangible and visible evidence of protection | ✔ | |
| Notifies/informs of future termite activity | ✔ | |
| No label restrictions around water sources and wells | ✔ | |
| Treatment is removable | ✔ |
About Termites
Termites are a constant threat. They can be on your property or thriving in your home without any visible signs of damage.
Backed by more than 60 scientific and 30 independent research studies, Sentricon® is the only termite control product proven time and again to eliminate entire colonies.
Termite Damage
Termites are discovered in more than 5 million homes on average each year in the United States. Unless you call Alaska home, your house is not safe from termite damage. The National Pest Management Association estimates termite damage costs U.S. homeowners $5 billion each year.
How can they cause so much damage? A subterranean termite colony can include millions of termites, and the worker termites forage for food 24/7. Their food is the wood in your home: your floors, walls and ceilings. And a termite may only need a 1/16″ space to pass through your foundation and reach the wood above.
Signs of Termites
How do you know if you have termites? While it’s always best to have an inspection done by a pest management professional, termites will occasionally leave clues. If you do investigate, here’s what to look for:
Swarming
Termites often swarm in warmer weather and after a rain shower to start new colonies. The swarming event can be brief, so even if you do not see flying termites, you are likely to see the discarded wings around window sills, doors, heating vents, bathtubs and sinks after a swarm takes place.
Termite swarmers use their wings to move away from their original colony. Their wings break off and they pair up and find locations with a wood source where the male and female can begin a new colony.
Whether you see the swarm or think there might have been one, call a professional immediately.
Mud Tubes
Foraging worker termites, the ones that eat wood to feed the rest of the colony, must stay in moist conditions and away from natural enemies like ants. To get across barriers between the soil and the wood above, termites construct small meandering mud tubes from moist soil and excrement.
The tubes are about the diameter of a pencil, though they can become wider. Tubes can be seen on foundation walls or inside walls, on plumbing pipes and spanning crawl spaces between the ground and the subfloor.
These termite highways are a sure sign termites are or have been in the home.
Damaged Wood
Termites eat wood from the inside out along the grain, so damage often isn’t visible until it becomes significant. Termite inspectors often will tap to listen for hollow-sounding wall studs, baseboards and floors. If the wood gives way, it may reveal a hollowed-out honeycomb pattern. The wood also will include some mud similar to mud tubes, plus live termites.
Formosan termites are an especially robust, destructive species with large colonies. Walls of infested buildings may contain carton nests that hold enough moisture to allow the colony to live entirely above ground, sometimes causing bulging walls.
Live Insects
When building or remodeling in your home, keep an eye out for soft-bodied, light-colored insects about the size of a grain of rice. Termites avoid light, so they are seldom visible in open areas.
How to Identify Termites
Hollow wood in your home? Cracked or bubbling paint? Discarded wings? Learn how to identify the pests in your house.
Is it an ant or a termite?
Swarming termites and ants look similar and are easily misidentified. The clearest way to distinguish them is to examine the wings (C). Termite swarmers have two sets of wings of equal length. The front pair of wings on a swarmer ant is longer than the back pair.
There are other distinguishing characteristics: An ant’s waist (B) is narrower than a termite’s. And ants have a joint in their antenna (A), while termites do not.
But here’s the biggest difference: Ants are usually just a nuisance. Termites damage your home.
Workers
Workers make up the overwhelming majority of the colony because they are responsible for feeding it, including the queen. These soft-bodied, clear to light-colored termites are about the size of grains of rice.
They rarely leave the dark, damp tunnels that run from the colony through the soil and into the wood of buildings. Workers continuously forage for food, maintain the nest and tend to the queen and her brood.
Soldiers
Soldiers are the defenders of the colony. They have long heads and powerful jaws, and are responsible for colony defense against natural termite enemies such as ants.
Reproductive Pairs (Swarmers)
Male and female reproductive termites develop wings, leave the parent colony in a swarm, mate, and start new colonies.
The Queen
Hail to the queen! She is the largest and most important colony member because she can lay eggs at a rate of one every second ― as many as a million eggs in her lifetime. She is large, up to 4 inches long, and can live for a decade or longer under ideal conditions. If she dies, a new queen will arise to take her place and keep the colony going.
KEY BENEFITS OF HOME TREATMENT & PROTECTION
Wipe out every house-hungry termite threatening your home now and prevent future attacks with the complete termite protection of the Sentricon® system.
Trust the scientifically designed system most proven to destroy entire colonies — queen and all. After all, it’s not your house, it’s your home.
Starting now. Take no prisoners.
Using scientifically engineered bait to naturally enter their food chain, the queen and her entire colony are decimated. For good. And it begins working immediately if visible, active termites feed on the bait found in our Recruit® AG (above-ground) stations.
Green Chemistry Challenge Award
The original Sentricon® system is the only termite product awarded the EPA’s Green Chemistry Challenge award for superior environmentally responsible chemistry.
Our specialists aren’t just trained, they’re certified.
Termites are too big of a threat for hit-or-miss do-it-yourself attempts to protect your biggest investment. Our Certified Sentricon Specialists® must pass intensive training on the installation and maintenance of complete home protection. Twenty years and 4+ million homes later, your peace of mind remains uncompromised.
Science trumps termites.
The science behind the Sentricon® system leaves termites helpless because they can’t tell the active ingredient is lethal. And in lab tests when given the choice, termites ate nearly 10 times more bait than wood.
Frequently Asked Questions About The Sentricon® System
The Sentricon® System
No. Termites find Sentricon® stations through their relentless search and continuous foraging for additional food sources. Once they discover the stations, inside they’ll find the patented and highly desirable lethal food source the termite workers readily feed on and take back to the colony to share with their nestmates. Termites die off but are not able to identify the cause. This leads ultimately to the death of the colony and the queen.
The Sentricon® system starts protecting a home as soon as it is installed. The Sentricon system begins working once termites feed on the bait found within the station. How quickly termites find an in-ground Sentricon station depends on the termite pressure in your area — but if termites are present, they will find the stations. Unlike liquid termiticide treatments, Sentricon eliminates the entire colony. Colony elimination is the most effective way to protect your property. If active termite feeding is visible, your Certified Sentricon Specialist™ can install specialized above-ground stations to initiate immediate feeding. The faster worker termites get to the bait used by the Sentricon system, the faster their colony will be eliminated.
Label directions for Always Active™ technology allow your Certified Sentricon Specialist™ to perform service once per year, though some will come more often. This flexibility allows a service schedule that meets the needs of your property and provides you with maximum convenience. You do not even need to be home when the stations are serviced.
No. The Sentricon® system is a stand-alone technology that is fully effective.
Liquid treatments are antiquated efforts to keep termites away and can be very disruptive to your property and lifestyle. But the Sentricon® system is an entire system based on the science of natural termite behavior. The award-winning, patented technology in Sentricon uses the termites themselves to destroy their entire colony and kill the queen.
The Sentricon® system is traditionally installed around a property’s perimeter to create a protective barrier around the structure. If active termite feeding is found indoors, Recruit® AG bait stations can be installed by a Certified Sentricon Specialist™. These stations bring the power of the Sentricon system above ground.
Yes. The stations are placed in the ground with only a service cover visible and require a special key to open. In addition, the active ingredient used in the Sentricon® system, noviflumuron, is designed specifically to disrupt the molting process that occurs only in insects and closely related organisms, not people or pets.
The quantity of active ingredient in each bait station is so small that a dog would need to ingest approximately 200 of the bait station inserts — which is simply impossible — before becoming sick.
The quantity of active ingredient in each bait station is so small that a dog would need to ingest approximately 200 of the bait station inserts — which is simply impossible — before becoming sick.
Yes. The active ingredient in the Sentricon® system is not systemic and will not be taken up by the plants, and the potential for leaching is extremely low.
Service with the Sentricon® System
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There is a basic cost to have the Sentricon® system installed and then an ongoing service fee to maintain the protection. The cost may vary depending upon the service program you and your Certified Sentricon Specialist™ agree to. Once installed, it costs about a dollar a day to keep Sentricon protection in place.
To ensure your home continues to be maintained by the No. 1 brand in termite protection, you must reactivate the service agreement. It is best to find the pest management company that had previously serviced your home as they will know the property’s history. If that is not possible, use our Find a Termite Professional page to find a Certified Sentricon Specialist® in your area.
No. The Sentricon® system is registered for professional use only according to federal and state regulations and may only be sold and serviced by a Certified Sentricon Specialist® according to manufacturer requirements. Termites are serious pests and the extreme damage they can do to a home requires specialized training and materials. If you have a concern or question, the best thing you can do is to call your Certified Sentricon Specialist and ask him or her to come out and assess the situation.
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