Fed: Natural plant extract kills destructive termites From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: September 29, 2005 | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
09-29-2005
Fed: Natural plant extract kills destructive termites

(Embargoed to 0001 AEST Thursday September 29)



By Vera Devai

SYDNEY, Sept 29 AAP - A simple wooden fence post has led Australian scientists to discover
a native plant extract that repels and kills termites.

Scientists from the University of Western Sydney (UWS) and Southern Cross University
(SCU) were asked to investigate why the single fence post in a Queensland field still
stood after all the others had been devoured by termites.

They found that the post, made of false sandalwood ...

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