THE GREEN FLY
A DANGEROUS PEST. Quite apart from the fact that greenfly sucks the sap and energy from the leaves and shoots it infests, it is an extremely dangerous pest to harbour in a garden. The tiny insects are capable of inoculating a plant with virus disease with which it has come in contact on an infected plant previously attacked. Even though an aphis may be content to remain on the plant on which it was born, ants are in the habit of carrying them from a crowded plant to another, where food is more accessible, and thus a virus disease is spread. That is why even clean plants should be sprayed as well to make them unpalatable and safer from infestation. 9
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1941, Page 3
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124THE GREEN FLY Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1941, Page 3
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