The gaseous environment of Coptotermes lacteus mound colonies before and after mirex treatment
IRG/WP 1396
J R J French, R A Rasmussen, D M Ewart, M A K Khalil
While monitoring the halocarbon and hydrocarbon emissions from a dry sclerophyll eucalypt forest in central Gippsland, similar emissions were collected from within several Coptotermes lacteus mound colonies. Samples of the gases (hydrocarbons) from within the mounds were collected before, during and after treatment with mirex-treated wood-decay blocks. All the mirex-treated mounds died within two weeks of active feeding on the bait blocks.