DUCKS FOR EARWIGS
ORCHARD PESTS IN SOUTH FOWLS NOT SUITABLE ( Special to THE SUN.') CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. use of ducks will be the final solution of the earwig problem,” said Mr. L. Paynter, Government orchard instructor, at a meeting of the Canterbury Fruitgrowers’ Association on Saturday. “Ducks do not damage the orchards as do fowls.” Delegates from Central Otago, at the recent Dominion conference of fruitgrowers, complained that there were millions of earwigs in that locality, and that they were a serious menace to the orchards. Mr. J. Balch told the members that he had had earwigs in hundreds in his orchard at Kaiapoi some years ago. Discovering that the birds lived on the earwigs. Mr. Balch turned tame ducks into his orchard, which they quickly ridded of the pest. Mr. Balch added that fowls did a certain amount of damage to orchards, while ducks-.were able to probe more purely into jjifi pests’ hiding places.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 88, 5 July 1927, Page 11
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