TO CHECK WHITE BUTTERFLY
MINUTE WASPS INTRODUCED.
NOT EXPECTED TO BE NEW PEST
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Wellington, Last Night.
The Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. C. E. Macmillan) was asked by Mr. R. A. Wright (Co., Wellington Suburbs) in the. House of Representatives to-day whether the Department of Agriculture intended to introduce wasps into New Zealand to destroy the white butterfly and if it was realised that the wasps might prove a more serious pest than the white butterfly. Mr. Macmillan said that while the parasites intended to be utilised for destroying the white butterfly' belonged to the wasp family they were different from the ordinary wasp. They were minute insects which possessed no stings, consumed no food during the period they were on the wing, and during all other stages of their lives fed only on the larvae of the butterfly.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1932, Page 7
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