In the past if you wanted to manage drywood termites you needed to use deadly gases and a large bag over your home to treat the infestation. Now modern technology has solved that hassle using MicroWave Technology. Extensive field experimentation over three years has perfected this device today. Years ago scientists found microwaves would control pests in stored grain. That's because different materials absorb microwave energy at different rates. Some materials absorb, some are transparent and some reflect, depending on what they're made of. The same principles apply today in controlling termites. Why did they wait so long? It was always cheaper to throw a little chemical into the storage bins rather than use a more effective method like microwaves.
How it Works
All matter is made up of atoms and molecules. Some of these molecules are electrically neutral, that is they have no electrical charge. Microwave energy will pass through electrically neutral compounds as if they weren't present. This is called transmission. Among these natural materials are glass, paper, china and some plastics. Most materials are not neutral and so the the molecules attempt to line up with an electrical field. If this electrical field is changing millions of times each second, the molecules are unable to keep up due to friction with each other. The energy of the microwaves is thereby converted to heat. The heating rate of materials exposed to microwave fields increases with field intensity and with frequency. Heating rates are higher when moisture contents are greater; thus, insects such as termites heat at a faster rate than wood.
Need Proof?
You can do this at home. Find a small wooden box, like those cedar boxes mom used to keep on her dresser. Now put a bit of protein or fat inside. A piece of bacon will do just fine. Now put that box with the bacon inside in your microwave for about a minute and a half at full power. What happens? The bacon cooks while the wooded box just gets warm! The wood in the box is like the wood in your walls and the beacon is like the termites that are mostly fats and proteins. The termites cook, while the walls are just fine!
Foam Concentrate
Now you can apply termiticides to even the hardest to reach areas that conventional spray applications miss with foam. Using a foaming machine expands your pesticide into a creamy consistency. The thick foam works it's way under concrete slabs, behind veneers, into framed walls, block wall voids and shallow crawl spaces - all of these remote areas so often missed by conventional spray treatments.
