A Canterbury farmer recently sent some Cape weed to Mr. P. R. Climie, the Progress Leagu: s organiser, stating that he had seen many insects like sandflies about it, and that he suspected that grubs in the stems were early stages of sandllies (says the “Lyttelton Times’’). Mr. Climie sent the plants to Mr. D. Miller. Government entomologist, at Wellington, who has replied that the specimens were badly infested with grubs of a gall-making insect, a cynipid belonging to the wasp group, and that two species of the cynipid are represented by the grubs.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 127, 27 February 1928, Page 16
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94Untitled Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 127, 27 February 1928, Page 16
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