Tim-bor Professional Insecticide and Fungicide 1.5 lb bag

Description

This is for a 1.5 lb bag of Tim-Bor Professional Insecticide and Fungicide.
This is a very specialized insecticide. Please read this full listing to learn more about this product and how it works.
Tim-bor Professional is used for the control of carpenter ants, drywood termites, wood decay fungi and wood boring beetles. It is a water-soluble borate powder that can be applied as a dust, spray, foam or mist onto wood and cellulosic materials or inside wall voids, cracks and crevices.
Depending on the moisture content of the materials, the liquid solution will penetrate to create a protective envelope, acting as a preservative, insecticide and fungicide. The dust provides an additional layer of protection by killing carpenter ants, drywood alates and adult wood boring beetles that enter the structure and pass through it.
At a Glance
Water-soluble borate powder for use as a dust, liquid or foam
Active ingredient is a borate: Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate
Prevents and controls drywood termites, wood decay fungi, carpenter ants, old house borers and powderpost beetles
Won’t discolor or stain wood surfaces
Won’t corrode screws, nails and other components used in construction
Use to treat wood in conjunction with other termite treatments, such as a termite bait application or a soil treatment (not labeled as a primary new construction termite treatment)
Use as a replacement for fumigation or as an add-on to fumigation to provide residual protection
Works best when wood has higher moisture content.
Highly effective & economical
Virtually odorless
For interior and exterior use
Manufactured with a concern for the environment
How it Works
Tim-bor Professional’s active ingredient is Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate (DOT), a natural borate mineral salt. It is manufactured for use in the form of a water-soluble borate powder. Once it’s applied in a liquid form by foaming, misting or spraying onto wood or other cellulosic materials, the borate active ingredient creates a protective envelope and remains for years of protection. Often Tim-bor Professional is dusted into places like wall voids where pests like to hide as an additional protection. When the dust gets on the insects, they clean themselves and consume the boron during the cleaning process.
The Science Behind Tim-Bor Professional
DOT is a natural form of elemental boron, which is essential for the healthy growth of plants and believed important in human calcium metabolism. Because animals and humans simply take what they need from their diet and rapidly excrete any excess via the kidneys, DOT has a low acute toxicity and is very effective against insects and fungi that do not have the same excretion mechanisms.
DOT maximizes the solubility, the rate of dissolution and the boric oxide content to give a borate active ingredient far superior to traditional boric acid or borax. At the levels used in Tim-bor Professional applications, it prevents pest infestation by inhibiting pest metabolism on a cellular basis. The tetrahydroxyborate anion forms a chelate complex with the cis-adjacent hydroxyl groups in the ribose sugar of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), with the cationic nitrogen of the nicotinamide moiety providing electrostatic stabilization of the chelate. In this configuration, NAD and NADP cannot be used by the dehydrogenase enzymes of glycolysis, the pentose phosphate pathway or the tricarboxylic acid pathway, and so the cellular energy generating mechanisms, including adenosine triphosphate production, are shut down.