It's termite swarming season. The voracious bugs are the plague of every homeowner.
But people are becoming more aware of the environment and are hesitant to use pesticides.
A colony of ground termites can devour fifteen pounds of wood a week. In the past, the only way to ensure those termites wouldn't be chewing up your house was to inject chemicals into the ground around your house. A lot of chemicals.
"We used to actually pump 150 to 200 gallons of pesticides to protect the home from a colony of subterranean termites," said Bob Koide, Environ Control.
Even now, when a home like this one is built, contractors take steps to control termites. Roy Ikeda's home was built in 2004.
"It's part of the contractor's construction of the house. There's a chemical treatment and that's effective for about three to five years we were told," said Roy Ikeda, homeowner.
But the effectiveness is wearing off and Ikeda wasn't interested in re-treating the property with chemical pesticides.
"We have a two year old son and he's at the age right now where he's getting into everything, in the house, outside and we wanted a system that was eco-friendly and also not a threat to our son," said Ikeda.
These plastic drums represent the amount of chemicals that would have to be placed in the ground to eliminate the threat of a termite colony. Bob Koide has a different approach using only grams of baited wood.
"In fact, in Hawaii alone since 2,000, Sentricon has reduced pesticides at least two million gallons - right here in Hawaii," said Koide.
Once the system is in the ground, Environ Control monitors the activity.
"Basically coming on your property inspecting your home, not only for termites but also looking and seeing what the conditions are regarding plant situation, regarding moisture conditions and we help the homeowners eliminate a lot of the other things to protect their homes against the subterranean termites," said Koide.
