Effect of Drying Temperature on Resistance of Commercial and Non-Commercial Woods Against Microtermes obesi (Holmgren) under Laboratory and Field Conditions
Effect of Drying Temperature on Resistance of Commercial and Non-Commercial Woods Against Microtermes obesi (Holmgren) under Laboratory and Field Conditions
Syed Shamsheer Abbas Ali Shah1, Ayesha Aihetasham1* and Khalid Zamir Rasib2
Table I.
Amount of wood consumed (mg and %) by M. obesi in 8 weeks under no-choice laboratory and field conditions. Figure in parenthesis indicate consumption.
*Three replicates (Mean±SD). Values in rows having no common superscript are significantly different (P<0.05) (Duncan’s test).
Table IV.
Consumption of wood in mg (Mean±SD) by M. obesi in choice feeding experiments under laboratory and field conditions dried at different temperatures. The wood combinations offered were P. alba/A. indica (PA/AI), F. benghalensis/F. benjamina (FB/FB), P. guajava/A. scholaris (PG/AS) and M. azedarach Linn/M. pinnata (MAL/MP).
aEach wooden block was paired with a wooden block of other species (Wood-1/Wood-2) in a glass beaker containing 300 workers of M. obesi. bDifference in mass loss for each pair of wooden block indicated by *=0.05, **=0.01 and ***=0.001 are significantly different (Paired comparison t-test).
