NATURALISTS’ HELD CLUB
On Saturday afternoon last members of the Dunedin Naturalists Field Club spent a very pleasant afternoon in the vicinity of Tomahawk. The geological section made a special study of the physiography of the district, while the entomological and botanical sections found much of interest. Tetragonia was found to be in flower, and small brown beetles and leaf-miners were taken from it. At the indoor meeting held on Monday evening an instructive lecture was given by Miss M. Watt, of the staff of ( the Botanic Gardens, the subject being “ Insect Pests.” Miss Watt described the general characteristics and life histories of a number of well-known insects, such as earwigs, locusts, cockroaches, mantids, stick insests, grasshoppers, and crickets, in a most interesting manner. Special mention was made of the ravages of locusts in some countries, and also of the various devices used to combat them. The American blight, or wooly aphis, also came under discussion, and a number of illustrations concluded a very interesting lecture. Miss Watt was accorded a very hearty vote of thanks.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19903, 24 September 1926, Page 4
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