Interesting to Vine-growers.
(Per Presa Association) Auckland, July 7. ; Captain Brown, Government Euto- ! mologist, baa, while engaged in destroying vines infested with phylloxera, found a number of mealy bugs dead with small ' perforations in their bodies, showing ' that the work in done by small parasite. ' A few live mealy bngs on the vine were ' collected, so that Captain Brown may j rear the parasite for distribution in the infested districts.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 7, 8 July 1897, Page 2
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70Interesting to Vine-growers. Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 7, 8 July 1897, Page 2
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