IMPORTED INSECTS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12659, 20 January 1927, Page 4

IMPORTED INSECTS

AND THE DAMAGE THEY DO “All the damage done by insects in New Zealand is practicaly due to dnsects introduced accidentally,” is the statement affixed to a small glass case amongst fresh exhibits in Canterbury Museum )states the “Lyttelton Times"). •'lt is not possible to estimate the damage, but it must run into a very high figure,” it is further explained. The earwig, the cockroach, the hopper, the woolly-aphis, the cottony cushion-scale, the botfly, the grain weevil, tho seed moth, the potato moth, tho diamond cabbage moth, and the bluebottle are shown in the case to answer the indictment. Another case, dealing with a different aspect of insect life, has been prepared It contains insects that provide food for trout. These include caddie flies, dragon flies, alder flies, may flies, and stone flies. A large collection of pieces ot timber, showing tho methods and development of the ghost moth, in its stages before it becomes a perfect ififeect, are displayed in a ease upstairs. Arrangements have' been made to place New Zealand insects in tho museum in cabinets, in order that *%ey may be readily available, but this will not be completed until specimens arc received from tbs Cawthron Institute to fill in gapa.