USE FOR HEDGEHOGS
COMBATING THE EARWIGS.
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, This Day.
Many Dunedin boys have earned a littles silver money for Christmas by capturing hedgehogs and taking them to the Government office, where half-a-crown per head was paid. Tho officers of 'the .Entomological Division of the Agricultural Department wanted hedgehogs for the purposes of experiment. One hundred and sixty were delivered, and the entomologist has released them in an Alexandra orchard to fight down the earwigs.
It is not yet certain whether the introduction of hedgehogs will absolutely control this pest, but the Department has sufficient knowledge of the subject' to warrant a trial.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 138, 8 December 1926, Page 10
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109USE FOR HEDGEHOGS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 138, 8 December 1926, Page 10
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