BUTTERFLIES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1933, Page 7

BUTTERFLIES

liberation of parasites ENTOMOLOGIST’S VIEWS PALMSTERTON N. Sept. 21. | Preparations ai’e being made by Mi •I. Muggeridge, Government entomoloj .gifit at the Plant Research Station, a*’ imerston North, for the i'beratipn j <>f paratites purchased with the £IOO raised in Hawke’s Bay as a fighting Dun! against the white butterflies. Mr i Mugger.dge has been visiting the conI D'ol areas in Hawke’s Bay, with*.a j view oi ascertaining the progress that is being made. He expressed his gratification to the discovery of parasitised pupea at Twyford, and regarded it as a* very favourable 'indication, of the ■ efficacy of the parasites. ; In conversation recently, Mr Mug- ; geridge emphasised the fact that the i v, '' v ' held by some that immediately ; parasites were I'.berated on a property the white butterfly would disappear was quite erroneous. “Results will of necessity b P slow,” ho isaid, “and it is impossible to anticimjiwv mu Happen. We are proceeding with this control work on •recognised biological . lines, and we ] naturally are hoping for the best. It may be s ome years before general ) control is achieved.”