Strangely, termites and the majority of other insects do not eat Podocarpus formosensis because of the special metabolites it produces; only M. basalis pryeri will touch it.
奇妙的是，多數昆蟲與白蟻拒吃竹柏，因為畏懼它身上特殊的代謝物質，唯獨黃帶枝尺蛾一物剋一物。