BUTTERFLY PEST.
WAR OF EXTERMINATION. « PARASITE PREFERS DROUGHT. * ______ ' (By Telpjfraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, this day. '; The opinion that cruciferous crops, of , which there are 000,000 acres in New . Zealand, could not now be grown were ' it not for the work of white butterfly parasites was expressed by Mr. J. Muggeridge, entomologist of the Plant Research Bureau, in a review of the activities since the introduction of the parasite a few years ago. i The monetary value of the parasite, ;he said, could not be estimated. He added that the butterfly was better able to survive wet conditions than the parasite, this being the reason for what appeared to be the increase in the num- ! her of the butterflies af.ter a wet • season, but as soon as dry conditions ; returned the destruction by the parasite i went up again. i ________^__^^
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 155, 2 July 1937, Page 8
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