Another Fruit Pest.
Mr J. C. Blackmore, Government Pomologist, having seen a telegram published in Christchurch to the effect that a new insect pe3t had appeared on some Japanese plum trees in Auckland, is making exhaustive inquiries in order to ascertain if a similar pest has appeared in the Canterbury district. He has already found that a Japanese plum tree in one orchard near Christchurch is infested with an insect which the proprietor had never seen before, but which Mr Blackmore recognised as the black peach aphis. This insect is one of two kinds of aphis much dreaded by peachgrowers in Australia and elsewhere in Europe. It also does much injury to cherry orchards in the early spring. It is plum colour, eemi- transparent, with a black shiny back. — Press Association.
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Manawatu Herald, 1 November 1894, Page 3
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131Another Fruit Pest. Manawatu Herald, 1 November 1894, Page 3
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