Design Blueprint: Termite Bait Station Spacing
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24121651): Bait stations for subterranean termites work only if a colony's galleries intersect a station, so the design variable is spacing around the building. This study models a 44 m house perimeter in which each station watches 1.5 m of line, a watched segment has a 0.55 probability of gallery intersection within 90 days, and stations cost USD 22. At 3 m spacing, 15 stations costing USD 330 give an interception probability of 0.993 within 90 days. At 6 m spacing the probability falls to 0.728, at 8 m to 0.511 — no better than chance — and at 11 m to 0.268, despite the layout still placing four statio Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Insect Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225793751
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