BLOWFLY MENAGE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 52, 29 February 1944, Page 6

BLOWFLY MENAGE

A BIG DANGER TO HEALTH

.METHOD TO CHECK BREEDING Blowflies have some uses, but not many. Jin the main they an: ji'.st as big a menace to health as the housefly. and they need to be tackled with the same determination as the smaller pest. In nature they are useful in that their larvae dispose of much decaying an'imal matter, such as dead birds, mice, and so on, all these; constitute their xirincipal breeding places. There, is one type of blowfly that enters the house in search of small j pieces of meat for breeding places, and besides making food unfit to eat, it spreads disease germs wherever it touches. Blowflies are powerful flieivs and they will travel Utiles hiking for favourable breeding places. This makes them difficult to control. The main way to check them is to stop them breeding, and to stop them breeding calls for elw jninating all likely breeding spots/ In the house this means a lly* proof pantry, and where country houses are subject to the blowfly, doors and windows require screening. Use ily-catchers, fly traps, ily powders and sprays inside the housp —be systematic and determined. Outside the house see that 110 bones or meat lie around, and ii' you arc in the country and do your own killing see that no offal lies about. Bury it well or burn it.

Novel Retread The time is Inst approaching when motorists will be entirely without tyres, hilt many car owners are endeavouring to put oil' the evil day and make their tyres give them a lew ore miles. One example was seen yesterday in the Strand, Whakatanc, ol'. a tyre which had obvi : ously seen long service, with a large patch of ordinary tube patch-, ing rubber stuck firmly to the middle of the outside of the tyre. Though obviously it had not long been on it was already showing signs of strain and fraying at the edges. If this sort of thing keeps up motorists will soon be holding their tyres together with chewing gum—if they can get the chewing gum ! illlllllllllltllltlllllllllilillllillllllllllllllllllllllllllitlllllllillltlli