WHITE BUTTERFLY
AN ENEMY IMPORTED A correspondent who wrote to the Wellington “Post” in dire alarm about the importation of the English wasp to combat the white butterfly was needlessly alarmed. The wasp which has been imported is not the yellow-and black stinging insect of some size, which creates such havoc with fruit at Homo and which makes itself a nuisance to all and sundry in summer time, lhe imported parasite is almost microscopic in dimensions and is only a distant relative of the ordinary wasp. When it is liberated few people will be any the wiser, but it is hoped that the white butterfly will be sadder. The imported parasite’s name is Apantoles glomeratus, and 2500 pupae of it, sent from the Imperial Institute of Entomology, are now being hatched out at the Plant Research Station, Palmerston North, lhe winter brood will have to be hibernated before liberation next year.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 April 1932, Page 8
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151WHITE BUTTERFLY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 April 1932, Page 8
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