INSECT FOUND ON POTATOES
A green potato capsid, a small (about a quarter to a third of an inch long) fairly active, sap-suck-ing insect has been found on the leaves of potato crops in the Darfleld district of Canterbury and at Tuatapere in Southland. Mr L. J. Dumbleton, an entomologist of the Entomology Division of the Department of tiflc and Industrial Research, who is stationed at the Crop Research Division at Lincoln, said recently that he did not regard the insect as a potentially serious pest. In England, he said, it was most common on smMl holdings which were enclosed with fences but it was evidently not rated as being of much importance for it was very difficult to find much information about it. If the insects were present in big enough numbers leaves of the plants might be severely damaged by spotting, he said. About 10 years ago the insects were observed in the Nelson district.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28524, 1 March 1958, Page 9
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