Abstract

Laboratory experiments in India showed that acetone and alcohol extracts of eucalypt roots (Eucalyptus tereticornis and E. grandis) contained a substance attractive to the subterranean termite Odontotermes guptai. Chemical analyses of the root extracts showed the extract to be a phenolic acid, but the attractancy was insufficient to warrant field testing. Root extracts of other plants tested were not attractive to the termite