PARASITIC WASP
P.A. AUCKLAND, September t>. A consignment of black wasps from Zanzibar has arrived at Auckland by the Tahman Empire Airways flyingboat. The wasps, which were ordered by the Island Territories Department, are being kept in insect-proof boxes at the Mount Albert Plant Eesearch Station before being sent to Samoa, where they will assist an earlier consignment in combating the coconut beetle menace. Known as Scolia ruficornis to entomologists, the insects are about an inch long and similar to the mason bee. They are not dangerous to human beings and animals, but destroy the grub of the coconut beetle, which has been known to ruin 75 to 80 per cent, of the palms in a plantation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 8
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117PARASITIC WASP Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 8
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