It is feared that crops of maize in Matakaoa County, East Cape, have been ruined by caterpillars. Under development schemes at East Cape and Tokata, over 100 acres of newly-ploughed land were sown in maize, but before the corn matured the leaves were stripped. The caterpillars appeared first in a crop of millet at East Cape and soon they attacked the young maize. After the maize had been stripped they turned their attention to pumpkins without doing any great harm. Thousands of starlings have come on the scene and are now attacking the post vigorously.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 147, 16 March 1940, Page 13
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