A DANGEROUS PEST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 160, 27 June 1908, Page 6

A DANGEROUS PEST.

liy Telegraph.-Press As.-ociiiliun. Auckland. LafcU Night. An in-!;ui."c t-C tin- need for ill- 1 ca ivfui in.-jM'i t i'm of produce coming irti*» New /t':l lit in! w.tr- ali'orded ye-lcl'd.l y. Tln-iv wa- a -lack or' niai/.e from I'iji. Ihe >aeks of which were covered \\ it h a link' grey moth. and an e\;miMia(i-tn of the grain showed it was dimply ml died liy a tiny black-lie;id giuh. .Wr. Aiiu't. (Government fruit insjHvtor. uoticed I )ie ill a >hij>jnent a fortnight sianil at once communicated with Wellington.. Inn found that ;u present there i< no law lo deal witli I (lis a> ait'tvlmg grain. Had it only been an enemy of th<- orehardi>t it could have 1 promptly dealt villi. A> it K tlie maize had tu he admitted, aim the ri-k incurred of one id' the wuvsl

of grain crop- in America being spread t iiroit<_ r li"Ui New/e;il md. Tlx* only hop;* is lliai sw the maize li'K arriwd in winter, and as there ;uv no "■rowing crop* of grain for the in>eei l-» attack a( tin* present time of the yoar, ii may perhaps perish without netting a footing here. Thi< particiilnr moth :=■ known a> the AngoumoU gram moth ((irieehia iVreallella). The of iliU insect, is not confined solely ' s 'niai/e, as the larva bores into the kernel of wheat, rve. or corn.