Millions of small green beetles, all well and truly drowned, at present cover the beach at Petane, near Napier, just about high water mark, having been washed up by the s.ea. The place of their origiu is a mystery and it is impossible to tell how far they have been carried by the waves. Their numbers are such that if they have all been carried from one particular spot, says a Napier paper, they must have constituted almost a plague in that locality during the time of their residence.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6803, 5 January 1929, Page 5
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