Warning to Fruit-growers and Others
'.. — -♦ : (Circular.— Other Journals please copy.). Warning has been received of a beetle destructive to the apple, which has been imported in New South Wales from California. The larvae of this insect attack and destroy the -apple in much the same manner as those of the codlin moth. Tue pest may be expected to arrive ia New Zealand with this year's fruit, and if it becomes established it may prove as destructive as the codlin moth and harder to fight. Mr FrazerS. Crawford, the South Australian Government Scientist at Adelaide, describes ' the larvae as footless v grubs, the largest one-tenth of an inch long and half that width* white or else rose colour^ with a "white, head several larvse are found in one apple. Any persons finding such insects are requested to destroy them, and if a few specimens are sent, alive in the apple, for identification, with some account of the circumstance of their discovery, they would be thankfully received by — R. Allan Wight, Entomologist to Papakaura F.G. A., Nelson F.G.A., J3ay of Islands A. and H.S., do. P. andl.& ;.;■'
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 40, 18 September 1890, Page 3
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185Warning to Fruit-growers and Others Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 40, 18 September 1890, Page 3
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