DADDY-LONG LEGS’ PLAGUE.
A;V' ■ J LONDON, Sept. 16. 1 There is a plague of daddy-long-legs (or crane flies) everywhere. The insects are invading houses by scores, blundering about the windows and tables and into the lamps. Owners of lawns and those responsible for golf courses and playing green are dreading a resultant plague of the grubs of these creatures, the leatheijaekets, which feed on the . roots , of turf. An entomologist said yesterday: It does not necessarily follow that there will he a leather-jacket plague. It will depend very largely on the kind of weather we get from now until say, the' middle of October; when the eggs are being hatched. If the ground continues to bo dried, and baked-.up the larvae will have little chance. The weather has been useful to the crane flies. The long, cold winter held up the eggs laid last autumn and the dry, warm summer following has favoured the development of- the flies. As flies it is difficult to wage effective war on them. The starling is one of the chief foes of the leather-jacket.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1929, Page 6
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180DADDY-LONG LEGS’ PLAGUE. Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1929, Page 6
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