Gorse Weevils
Dr D. Miller, assistant director and chief entomologist at the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, has announced that supplies of gorse weevils are again available for farmers. The institute is asking on this occasion, however, that farmers who receive the weevils pay the cost of postage, which, so far as the institute is concerned, amounts to hundreds of pounds. Numbers of the weevils were issued last spring, and the spring before, and colonies of them have become established in some localities where they were liberated. In others, no sign can be found of them. The weevil lays its eggs in the gorse pods and the grub eats the seeds.
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Southland Times, Issue 24239, 24 September 1940, Page 8
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109Gorse Weevils Southland Times, Issue 24239, 24 September 1940, Page 8
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