INSECTS AND TROUT.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16700, 8 December 1919, Page 12

INSECTS AND TROUT.

4 A SCIENTIST'S COMMENTS. '"I bclinvc thcro i? nothing in th« ! world so interesting as iriM< ts." sau l>r. Tillynrd m v:.»i:iny vienti.-t) in ■ lecture ho delivered at Wellinstor last week. "I have tried every tiiiug from stamp* upwar.i'-. anc 1 havo deiidol to spend ; h< re.-t of my life studying inse.tr." W < had beau-n the Hun. he .;dde<l, but ;\t had not yet I* at* 11 the in-crt. and u future one oi the greatest nsuts ot th< race wa;- to be Mich ill wi pc.'-ts as tut* biowfly und tile n.ov fl'.iiio, and other inycvts mat mado iif* in some parts of the world almost- un endurable. Dr. Tillyard, who is a Cambridp' graduate, irj ho was anxious to impress up<»n the Government the valu» 'it tho mayfly, net only a.- .1 food foi trout, but as a lino for tho n.-o 01 The mayfly had practically <li>:i}(fx-ar(>d from the R-otonia district and oniv one variety wa-s to ho fount in tho Tarawora district. Anglers couh do much (»otior with tho mayfly thar with tho Kn«l : sh fl>e.? they bought. Th< maytly w:us soomd in value to tiu caddis fly as ;i food for trout. Tbii latter fly was very 'ommon in point places, hut ho was sorry to say that it parts of tho Hotorua district it was almost impossible t-o find a sj>ccimen I'ho deterioration of the trout then ww no doubt largely due to the dis appearanco of tho inject, and tho problem of restoring the trout to their for n;or healthy condition was to a preai oxtont bound up with that of getting back tho enddis fly.