WASPS TO COMBAT BLACK FLY PEST
Fifty thousand Cuban wasps have alighted in Mexico alter a comfortable: journey from Havana aboard a Pan-American Clipper. The Cuban Ministry of Agriculture gave the wasps to help Mexico's orange-grow-ers conquer a plague of destructive black llies. The wasps eat the Hies.
Pan-American World Airways was able to take the wasp shipment in its stride, for it had previously down <hees from the United States to Alaska; chickens to the West Indies antl l'rogs from the Argentine to American §ugar-canc, areas.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 31, 8 December 1944, Page 5
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87WASPS TO COMBAT BLACK FLY PEST Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 31, 8 December 1944, Page 5
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