Daily News: Odd News - Termites' powerful weapon against extermination? Their own poop

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Termites' powerful weapon against extermination? Their own poop  Wednesday, Sep 25, 2013 05:32 PM PDT By Barbara Liston ORLANDO (Reuters) - Scientists trying to understand why destructive wood-eating termites are so resistant to efforts to exterminate them have come up with an unusually repugnant explanation. Termites' practice of building nests out of their own feces creates a scatological force field that Florida scientists now believe is the reason biological controls have failed to stop their pestilential march all over the world. ... Full Story

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