1️⃣ Eat the bait – Worker termites are attracted by the smell of decaying wood and consume the bait.
2️⃣ Return to the nest – They carry the bait back before the poison takes effect.
3️⃣ Share the bait – Termites feed each other, spreading the poison within the colony.
4️⃣ Chain spread – The toxin transfers from termite to termite throughout the nest.
5️⃣ Queen affected – The queen consumes the bait, reducing reproduction or causing death.
6️⃣ Colony collapse – The colony cannot reproduce and gradually dies out.
👉 Core mechanism: Eliminates the colony from the inside, targeting the queen termite. 🐜
🐜 Mechanism of one termite spreading the poison to the entire colony