Subterranean termites have adapted extremely successfully to their unique environment and role in the ecosystem. Termites have a highly evolved social organisation and hierarchical structure. With an exclusive food source, they live in an almost closed environment. It is therefore no wonder that so much is spent on termite control worldwide.

In understanding timber feeding subterranean termites in their environment, it must be understood that at any one time a number of stimuli which are interdependent on behaviour are acting. There is a complicated hierarchy of stimuli that affects the termite habits, including temperature, cooler/warmer areas (known as thermal shadows), humidity, moisture, food source, food size and availability, protection from predators and light.

To create an artificial or forced aggregation in a natural environment we must first intercept those specific termites that are foraging for new food sources. Then we need to force the signal by those termites to other ones to create aggregation and feeding over other desirable food sources. To achieve such an outcome requires apparatus designed to satisfy termite habits in the perfect balance and then kept in a favourable condition, in a favourable location for the greatest amount of time possible.

The apparatus once active with the desired species of termites must then be capable of having termite bait added without causing them to abandon. This proactive inspection although simple and quick to do with the correctly designed apparatus has (up until the creation of the TermiteMansion V12) been best performed by someone with experience in monitoring and baiting termites due to the many design faults of past models.

With the introduction of the TermiteMansion V12 it has become possible for the homeowner and complete novice to treat termites by themselves due to satisfaction of all termite senses. Previously the homeowner had no alternative than paying the huge cost of having an outsider travel to their property and inspect badly designed, time-consuming monitors at an hourly charge. Both the large time frame of monitoring and the need for an expert are now gone.