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TERMITES, or 'white ants' in popular terminology, are known to most of the inhabitants of the tropical parts of the world, and also to some warm temperate regions such as parts of the United States. Although occasionally introduced into Great Britain, they have never made any headway in this temperate island climate. Various remedies or preventions against the termites' attacks have been Inroduced or are practised locally in tropical countries—some effective, or partially effective, others more or less worthless. One of the greatest troubles and losses from this pest is the depredations it commits on furniture, instrument boxes, packing cases, etc., made in Britain (or in temperate Europe generally) and sent to the tropics; in termite-infested areas such have little chance of escaping destruction.
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Termite-Proofing of Timber. Nature 155, 151 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155151a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155151a0