BUTTERFLY FARM
BREEDS PARASITES TO KILL BRITAIN'S TOMATO CROP PEST EVen butterfly farming is being developed to help on Britain's war effort. To protect this year's tomato crop from the White Fly pest, a greenhouse has just been reserved at a butterfly farm in Kent. Here the pest will be introduced in order to breed its parasites, a tiny ichneumon fh r . lomato leaves covered with White Fly eggs, carefully infected, will then be distributed among tomato growers to safeguard, the crops of this valuable contribution to the j country's food supply, j Ihe butterfly farm is also sending cut batches of eggs of the Winter moth to test the value of fruit tree sprays. Last year it bred hundreds of yellow butterflies to help Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, the octogenarian scientist, in his experiments to find a cure for pernicious anaemia. The scales were removed from the wings and the yellow pigment extracted. Should it be practicable to manufacture a similar composition, the result will have an important bearing upon' the treatment of the disease.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 50, 8 May 1942, Page 2
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