WHITE BUTTERFLY PEST
CAMPAIGN FOR SUPPRESSION [BY TBT.EGRAPH —OWN CORRESPOI* DENT "'j i PALMERSTON NORTH, "Wednesday With £'loo raised by Hawke's Bay residents toward the co?t of dealing with the white butterfly pest, 011 condition that the funds are expended en activities in districts where the money was subscribed, Mr. J. Muggeridgj, Government entomologist at the Palnerston North plant, research statioi, lias been able to place an order m England for more insect enemies of the destructive butterfly. Last year 100,000 larva! para Rites for an initial attack were imported and liberated. This year it is anticipated that at least an equivalent number will be available, as well as 30,0C0 pupal parasites. White butterflies in the larval state are ntill at work in sorafl places, If arc now hibernating. ,onsleg| 1 .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21506, 1 June 1933, Page 10
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