ELEVEN-SPOTTED LADYBIRD.
AND THE WOOLLY APHIS. The Orchard Inspector in Hawke's v Bay reports that on visiting several orchards in and around Hastings, which are somewhat badly infested with woolly aphis, or American v blight, he has noticed a common New Zealand ladybird—the eleven-spotted : ladybird (Coccinella punctata)—doing V v > good work by feeding upon the aphis. He stages that close observation extending over several days clearly demonstrated that these useful little insects effected a very considerable improvement in the condition of affected trees in some cases the trees were almost cleared. A fortnight later he found that the ladybirds were disappearing rapidly from . the orchards, but that, wherever the number had been largo, the good that had been done was unmistakable. This ladybird is readily recognised as . of red colour, with eleven black spots.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10208, 8 April 1911, Page 5
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134ELEVEN-SPOTTED LADYBIRD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10208, 8 April 1911, Page 5
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