The aphis or green-fly, which destroys our rose-bushes, breeds at a stupendous rate. All the flies we see are females. They give birth every few days to teeming broods of youngsters, which arc full-grown in a matter of hours.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20202, 12 January 1934, Page 9
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