CHILEAN SAWFLIES
USED TO DESTRDY BID-A-BID [Per United Press Association.] WANGANUI, December 4. Dr Miller, assistant director of the Cawthron Institute, visited Wanganui to-day and inspected an observation colony of Chilean sawflies, which he established on Mr (T. Currie’s Brunswick property last winter. The insects are now in the caterpillar stage, and could _ be _ seen attacking the hutiwai (bid-a-bid) plants. Dr Miller said he was well satisfied with the progress of the colony, and was confident that the insects would carry out the purpose for which they were imported from Chile—the destruction of the hutiwai pcst._ Dr Miller went on to Eliham to inspect a colony which he liberated on .Mr Hardwick Smith’s property there last winter. . '■
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Evening Star, Issue 22514, 5 December 1936, Page 14
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117CHILEAN SAWFLIES Evening Star, Issue 22514, 5 December 1936, Page 14
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