VALUABLE PARASITES
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Control of the White Butterfly
(By Telegrraph—
PALMERSTON N., This Day. The opinion that oruciferous crops, of which there are 600,000 acres in New Zealand could not now be grown were it not for the work of the white butterfly parasites was expressed by Mr J. Muggeridge, entomologist at the Plant Research Bureau, in reviewing the activities since the introduction of the parasite a few years ago. The monebarjr value of the parasite could not be estimated. Mr Muggteridge added that the butterfly was better able to survive wet conditions than the parasite, this being the reason for what appeare.d to be an increaso in tb-- ik ber of butterflies after a wet season, but as soon as dry conditions return fcliu destruction by the parasite goes up again.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 141, 2 July 1937, Page 4
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