FIGHTING INSECT PESTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 918, 11 March 1930, Page 10

FIGHTING INSECT PESTS

TOUR BY DR. MILLER To study the latest methods of combating insect pests. Dr. D. Miller, head of the entomoligical department of the Cawthron Institute, is leaving for am extended tour abroad by the Aoranri today. Dr. Miller is going on behalf of the New Zealand Government, the Cawthron Institute and the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board. This tour will take him through North America, the Argentine, Chile and England. There he will represent the Government at the Imperial Entomological Conference to be held in London in June. His observations will be of benefit to orchardists and forest control ant meat producing interests. On behalf of meat producers. Dr. Miller w-jl| study the eradication of the cattle tick by means of parasites, and tht* control of the grass grub. His trip to Chile will be a special mission to secure supplies of insects to attack piri-piri, commonly known as bidibidi. and he will also study several other problems of general interest. A supply of cattle tick parasite? will be arranged for by Dr. Mil'.er from Montana and France. He will also obtain supplies of a parasite for eradicating grass grub, and he will study the parasite in New Jersey, where it has been imported from Japan for the control of grass grub in North America.