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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 48, 26 January 1926, Page 8

The latest publication issued by the Director of Forestry, as Bulletin No. 2 of the State Forest Sorvico, is an entomological one entitled “Forest and Timber Insects in New Zealand.” The author of this work is Air David Aliller, Government Entomologist. The bulletin, which, consists of 76 pages of printed matter and 169 illustrations, is sot out in such a way that the contained information is» available to all people interested in afforestation and tho timber industry. Part ono deals with New Zealand forost conditions in tho past leading up to the position of affairs regarding our present day forests and the insects infesting them. Under the heading “The Process of Disintegration” the leading part that fire plays in the breeding of borers is explained, showing tho Ure-killed trees develop borers that will attack milled timber. The extent to which Australian borers and other insects enter the Dominion on imported hardwood poles is stressed and (also tho general lines along which control of forest and timber insects can bo followed. Part ono closes with a section giving the characters by which insects generally met with can be recognised. Part two deals specifically with 112 species of forest and timber infesting insects, set out in sections according to tho part of tho tree attacked. Ono of the sections of this part deals specially with borers and should provide information of value to builders and householders.