Great damage to grass has been done by caterpillars on land in the Wellsford and Wayby districts, in North Auckland floods. In most cases there is no grass left for cattle or sheep. As farmers rely on the flats for their summer grass the position is serious. Unless rain falls soon the cows will have to be dried off. The caterpillars are mainly short and black, and so far it is not known where they breed, or how they infest only the land that was covered by flood waters. In places where they have eaten the grass on the once flooded areas, they are now spreading on to the surrounding land.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1938, Page 3
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