New Zealand's DSIR has reported good control of wool-carpet moth species, using 'Green Gold' neem extract. Reports of neem extracts being efficient in controlling and preventing tick attack on cattle and horses, as well as giving relief from fly attacks to the head and rear of cattle and sheep, respectively, have been restricted to applications in dry times, possibly due to degradation of azadirachtin under other conditions. In the future, plague locust, Schistocera spp, may be kept in check by the use of neem extracts. However, the seed or extract would have to be available and applied at the appropriate time. Neem extracts are apparently not being considered for investigation for plague locust control in Australia.
Advanced trials are to begin shortly.
The author has observed, in Cairns, North Queensland, that the Micracerotemes turneri species of termite died if a few mLs of concentrated ethanolic neem extract was placed into its nests . Australian primary producers may have the opportunity of using neem cake, instead of neem extract, for controlling such nematode species on lighter soils. Neem cake is processed from the material remaining after the crushing of the neem seed. Fertilisers mixed with neem cake have been applied to soil, prior to the planting of rice in India and other Asian countries for effective nematode control. The future of public-funded neem research in Australia is unclear.