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r joists. Termite pellets were first no-ticed underneath an antique birch cabinet.Each time the cabinet was moved to sweepthe carpet, there would be a new pile ofpellets, and upon close examination holeswere seen through the wool carpet andsmall holes penetrating the \x4 Douglasfir flooring. Upon… … Fig. 11—Books from the shelves of a Los Angeles bookstore destroyed bythe ground dwelling termites. The lack of intellectual progress in the tropicshas been correlated by some writers with the rapid destruction by termites ofprinted or written records.
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