A NEW PEST.
Mr J. C. Blackmore, Government pomologist, having seen a telegram published at Christchurch to the effect that a new insect pest had appeared on Japanese plum trees in Auckland, is making an exhaustive inquiry, in order to ascertain if a similar pent had appeared in the Canterbury district. He has already found that a Japanese plum tree in one orchard near Chrittchurch is infested with the inßoot, which the proprietor had never teen before, bub which Mr Blackmore recognised as the black poach aphis (Myzus cerasi). This inEecb is one of two kiuda of aphis much dreaded by peoch-growtri in Australia and elsewhere. In Kurope ifc also does much injury to the oherry orchards in the early spring. The insects are of a dark plum colour, semi-transparent, with black, shiny baoks.
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Otago Witness, Volume 01, Issue 2123, 1 November 1894, Page 19
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134A NEW PEST. Otago Witness, Volume 01, Issue 2123, 1 November 1894, Page 19
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