AN ARMY OF CATERPILLARS.
■:; —-—« — 1 RAVAGES- ON CHEVIOT CROPS. ' . U3XTELEORAFH—SPEfcUL CORRESPONDENT.) Christchurch, January 6. . In the Rotherhanr' district, iri the.Amuri,. the caterpillars. aire, proving a: plague, to.'the grain and grass crops. 'In somo instances long strips'of. the country have been visited. Th<r grabs have .appeared; in .myriads,.:,and have taken some chains of front, over l which they denude the grain crop of the. ears,.by eating through tjie neck of the- grain. -v The grasi crops' are being 'treated, in'a like' man-' ner. Hundreds of sm?-. 1 ! birds'have'attacked the grubs, but they made ro perceptible'diminution in the ranks- of the caterpillar-army.. Before the advent: of the small birds on' the Canterbury - Plains if '"as not an, uncommon sight- to see paddock's, overrun ; .'.with': caterpillars'. or the tussock and' grass': alive', with grasshoppers, but , , the ; invasion , at liam is quite a new experience ■ in , recent years.-
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 January 1909, Page 7
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144AN ARMY OF CATERPILLARS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 January 1909, Page 7
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