CODLIN MOTH PARASITE.
Specimens believed to bo Californian codlin moth fly posts, which were recently imported from America and liberated from Auckland, have been seen lately in the Wairarapa district (says bur correspondent). Tho malo fly appears to bo about an eighth of an inch in length, ivith reddish wings and a sandycoloured body. Tho female, who carries the war into tho enemy's camp, and is an industrious traveller, ; lays an egg in each codlin moth .chrysalis that shp can find, and during the whole of her journey she seldom eats. After laying','her last egg she dies. From her eggs,,, which-, aro hatched inside the chrysalis, the progeny .issue usually in tho proportion of eleven males to every one femalo.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 326, 13 October 1908, Page 5
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120CODLIN MOTH PARASITE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 326, 13 October 1908, Page 5
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