A DREADED PEST.
Per Press Association. Napier, October 23. Mr \\ . A. lioucher, Government Pomologist, to-day -eized a quantity of orange- at Hastings which were infested with the maggot of the Queensland fruit fly. and is taking steps to hav« p ih'-m properly treated and destroyed. Tfce oranges formed
part of a consignment received at Napier, whence they were distribut '•d, and every endeavour is now beingmade to trace the other ense- of the alignment and destroy liiem.
(I he insr-ct is one of the mosi dangerous and ■ destructive of soli fruit pests, and its distribution in the colony is viewed with the keenest anxiety by orchardi-ts. The p-st mani-fe-t» Its presence in the fruit by a small spr,t. and if the skin be cu' away round thi- spot tlie grub of the insect will be found in the fle-h, and after a short time the whole mass become corrupt. The , )t .. t ls ~x . tremely dith'uh to eradicate, and if it »ge:= a ho!d in an orc.iard ii is almost impossible to produce any fruit at all.)
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81873, 24 October 1906, Page 3
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177A DREADED PEST. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81873, 24 October 1906, Page 3
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