GREEN VEGETABLE BUG
PARASITE INTRODUCED FROM AUSTRALIA
(New Zealand Press Association) NELSON, March 10. A minute insect introduced from Australia is proving a valuable but seldom-recognised ally of New Zealand gardeners. It is a parasite that is reducing the green vegetable bug population with such good effect that even naturally-cautious entomologists are prepared to say that “indications are that the parasite is turning out a success.”
It was the Entomological Research Station at Nelson (a joint undertaking of the Cawthron Institute and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) that introduced the , parasite, which had been taken to
Australia from the United States for the same purpose. Dr. David Miller, director of the research station, said yesterday that the parasite was becoming well established, particularly in the North Auckland district, where it was first introduced about three years ago. It was still rather early to say definitely how the parasite was doing, but the indications were that it was getting ahead I of the pest, said Dr. Miller.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26986, 11 March 1953, Page 11
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