PLAGUE OF CATERPILLARS
DESTRUCTIVE VISITATION IN VICTORIA. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, December 27. A train was stopped at Woolamai, in the Gippsland district, owing to caterpillars swarming over the lines. Sand had to be used on the rails The district is suffering from a plague of caterpillars. Stacks of oats have been transformed into a black mass of caterpillars.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19683, 28 December 1933, Page 7
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61PLAGUE OF CATERPILLARS Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19683, 28 December 1933, Page 7
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