COCKSFOOT PEST
CENTRE EATEN OUT
AN GRUB
The discovery of an unidentified grub Avhich has done damage estimated at thousands of pounds has been made in the cocksfoot crops at the Elffelton district, Ashburton County. A preliminary survey of many crops affected has just been completed by Miss A. Hamilton, ento* mologist of i»he department of Agriculture, attached to Cawthron Institute, Nelson. So severe have been thb ravages of the pest that the return, from cocksfoot, which is groAvn widely at Eiffelton, where the land is particularly suited to this type of grass seed, is estimated to have been reduced by 50 per cent, and. more some cases. The grub gets into the stem of the straw, and its habit is to eat out the centre.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 78, 15 July 1942, Page 5
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126COCKSFOOT PEST Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 78, 15 July 1942, Page 5
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