PARASITE SUCCESS
WAR ON WHITE BUTTERFLIES. TERRIFIC TOLL OF PEST. “Great success has attended the parasitism of the white, butterfly this season,” said Mr. .T. Miiggoridgo, Government entomologist, in an interview concerning the pest. The results had been remarkably encouraging during the. season-just closed. A further 80,000 parasites hud been liboratal-in the field, au'd it was evident that the concerted attack by the parasites organised last year, when nearly 1,000,000 were distributed, had taken such toll of the butterfly that the pest had required all the summer to breed again in any considerable hum-
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Patea Mail, 27 March 1936, Page 4
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94PARASITE SUCCESS Patea Mail, 27 March 1936, Page 4
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