FIGHTING PESTS.
HOW ONE WAS FOUND. LONDON, March 23. “Startling results,” says Mr Fryer, the Ministry of Agriculture’s entomologist at tho Harpenden laboratories, “sometimes follow the examination of insect specimens forwarded to the department. “For example, the capsid , bug was regarded as a harmless parasite of the willow treo until a small farmer sent us a specimen, accompanied by the pieco of apple on which it had been found. It was instantly realised that the capsid bug had tired of the willow and transferred its attentions to the apple tree. “It is now a most dangerous apple pest, and would have thrived jprosperously for years but for tho farmer’s submission of his specimen.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 108, 7 April 1926, Page 8
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113FIGHTING PESTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 108, 7 April 1926, Page 8
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