GREEN FLY ON TREES.
* _ PARASITES FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA. (IT CAJCK—PKISS A.8SOC1A.TIOX—COPI»I««I.) (RECTKE'B TthZQtkHt.) (Received November 19th, 10.5 p.m.) VICTOBIA, November 19. When the Aorangi sailed on Wednesday night she carried 1900 lace flies packed in special boxes and placed in the refrigerator chambers of the motor-ship for New Zealand. They are dormant warriors for the battle to be staged in parks and pleasure grounds in the southern Dominion, to protect oaks and other trees from the depredations o,t the predatory green fly. The shipment was collected by entomologists under the loose bark of pino trees in British Columbia. They are expected to prey on green flies and hold in chdek their devastation of deciduous trees.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18544, 20 November 1925, Page 9
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