THE BORER.
TO THE EDITOR OP "THE PRESS." Sir —If there's an industrious chap at Canterbury College Or in the W.E.A. who wants a research subject, may 1 suggest to him the borer. In these first warm days it comes out of its tunnel in the shape'of a small Drown beetle, and the researcher could catch some and keep them under observation. I should like to know where it lays its eggs, how- soon they hatch, and Low soon tho hatched begin to bore. May I add that the back of the finger nail firmly applied to the beetle is immediately fatal, and that anyone who wiU spend two minutes in tho chase three or four times a day at this period of the year, can go far towards exterminating the enemy from any exposed surface of moderate size. A few spiders established in the neighbourhood are a great help, and I think it is due to spiders that one sometimes finds old timber in which the borer has begun, but has ended without doing much damage.—Yours, eft.,
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16407, 30 December 1918, Page 9
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178THE BORER. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16407, 30 December 1918, Page 9
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