The warm weather at present being experienced in Southland is enjoyable, but it has brought in its tram at least one scourge in the thousands upon thousands of flies (says the . News ). These pests cling to everything, and cluster on wa'l and coiling until overjtlnnc is black with their buzzing mvrinds: Flv-traps and flypapers seem to' he of little »-aiL si'fe they aie filled un alm-i*i immediately, ami mon (lies come from nowhere to take tie place of the slaughtered ones. I lie worst time occurs when, after a hot day. comes a cold snap at nignt. the flies then become ’ethargic, and cluster round fireplaces and mantelpieces until everything is black with t,he.m*
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 110, 7 February 1928, Page 9
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