CONTROL OF RAGWORT PEST
CATERPILLARS FROM AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Canberra, Nov. 15. Senator McLachlan announced that arrangements had been made by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to supply Dr. Tillyard with a large number of the caterpillars of the moth momooosoma, a natural enemy of ragwort, for testing on plants at the Cawthron Institute. Preliminary investigations carried out by the council’s entomologist demonstrated convincingly that these insects were capable of destroying ragwort plants in a week or so. Should starvation tests prove satisfactory it is expected that these caterpillars will assist materially in bringing the weed wider control in New Zealand and possibly in Tasmania, where several districts are infested.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1927, Page 12
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