a certified sentricon specialist (css), who is trained and certified by dow agrosciences, installs sentricon bait stations in the soil creating a protective perimeter around a property. csss provide an ongoing service to stations, even after a colony is eliminated, to prevent re-infestation by other colonies and ensure continued protection. these stations are baited with a cellulose material impregnated with noviflumuron , a chitin synthesis inhibitor. when foraging, worker termites find the stations, eat the bait material and then regurgitate this bait for colony nest mates to consume. affected termites later die when they are unable to molt, but they will not be able to pinpoint where the poison is coming from. as they die, the colony is eliminated, typically over a period of months. noviflumuron bait treatment requires less disruption of the building and surroundings than traditional methods based on creating a barrier of termiticide-treated soil around the structure to be protected, but needs to be continued indefinitely to prevent re-infestation in areas where termites are endemic.