THE GRASS GRUB BEETLES.
PLATING HAVOC WITH MANGELS. ' The grass grub beetles are reported to have'played havoc with a largo number 1 of tho young mangel plants at Lincoln College, eating tho leaves to the rib. Mr. Alexander, tho director,, says he thinks the.high winds have, to a great extent, prevented the beetles from settling upon trees, as is their usual custom, aud, in consequence they have been forced to feed °» low'-lyj.iis crops,, which are, by their position, to a certain extent protected from the gales.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1318, 22 December 1911, Page 8
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86THE GRASS GRUB BEETLES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1318, 22 December 1911, Page 8
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