THE FRUIT FLY.
DISTRIBUTION OF LADYBIRDS. Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 24. The Government biologist, Mr. T. W. Kirk,.states that the Department has been unable to find the fruit fly in the gardens at Napier and Blenheim, in which it appeared last year. These gardens were subjected to drastic treatment, and have been closely inspected, so that there is reason to hope that the pest has been stamped out in those localities, although this is not certain until the end of the season has passed. The strictest watch is being kept on the garden in Auckland, in which the fly appeared, and very stringent measures have? been taken to suppress the pest. Tlio Biological division of the Department of Agriculture intends to make a further distribution of ladybirds in certain parts of the South Island, where the bluegum blight .still exists. It is now almost impossible to find the blight or the ladvbird in the Timaru district, formerly the chief seat of the trouble. Thousands of ladybirds have been distributed by the Department wherever the blight was known to exist, and with most satisfactory results. Mr. Cockayne, Assistant Biologist, leaves for the South to-night with a further supply of ladybirds.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2124, 25 February 1908, Page 2
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199THE FRUIT FLY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2124, 25 February 1908, Page 2
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