BUTTERFLY FARMING
BREEDING OF PARASITES
KILLING TOMATO CROP PESTS
Butterfly farming is -being developed in Britain to help on the wai effort.
To protect this year's tomato crop from the White Fly pest, a greenhouse has just been reserved as a butterfly farm in Kent. Here the pest will be introduced in order to breed its parasite. Tomato leaves covered Avith White Fly eggs, carefully infected will then be distributed among tomato growers to safeguard the crop of this valuable contribution to the country's, food supply. The butterily farm is also sending out batches of eggs of the. Winter moth to test the value of fruit tree! sprays. Last year it bred hundreds of yellow butterflies to help Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, the octogenarian scientist, in his expeiiraents to find a cure for pernicious anaemia. The scales were removed from the wings and the yellow pigment extracted. Should it be practicable to manufacture a similar .composition, the result will have an important bearing upon the treatment ol th<> disease.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 84, 29 July 1942, Page 5
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169BUTTERFLY FARMING Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 84, 29 July 1942, Page 5
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