CATERPILLAR PEST
WELLSFORD AND WAiYBY DAMAGE TO GRASS LANDS FARMERS* SERIOUS POSITION [by TELEGRAPH —OWN COJIRESTOXBiNT.] TTELLSFOitD, Tnesfay Great damage to grass has been don« by caterpillars on land in the Wellsford and Wayby districts that was sub- * merged during the February floods. In most cases there is no grass left'for cattle or sheep. As farmers rely on the flats for their summer grass the position Unless rain falls soon the i;ows will hare to be dried off.
The caterpillars are mainly short and black, and so far it ii not known where' they breed, or hoir they infest only the land that was corered by flood waters. In places where they hard eaten the grass on the once flooded areas, they are now spreading on tff the surrounding land.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23000, 30 March 1938, Page 12
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