RAGWORT PEST
SUPPLIES OF CATERPILLARS. DR. TILLYARD TO EXPERIMENT. (Received 15, 10.5 a.m.) Canberra, Nov. 18. Senator McLachlan announced that arrangements have been made by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to supply Dr. Tillyard with a large number of caterpillars of the moth momoeasoma, a natural enemy of ragwort, for testing on the council’s plants at the Cawthron Institute.
Preliminary investigations carried out by the Council’s entomologist, demonstrated convincingly that these insects are capable of destroying ragwort plants in a week or so. Should starvation tests prove satisfactory it is expected that these caterpillars will assist materially in bringing the weed under control in New Zealand and possibly Tasmania, where several districts are infected.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 15 November 1927, Page 5
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116RAGWORT PEST Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 15 November 1927, Page 5
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