Less chemical strategies are required for decrease of damages to residents from chemicals such as organic phosphates and carbamates those are usually used to prevent termite attacks on wooden buildings. One of the strategies is a bait system that has already been employed in the termite-infested areas. We tried to use steamed larch wood as a monitor wood and a bait matrix to stimulate feeding actions of Coptotermes formosanus and Reticulitermes speratus on a termite bait system using chlorfluazuron. The results of about 140 field trials indicated that steamed larch wood is a specifically effective wood-feeder for both the termite species.

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