THE CODLIN MOTH.
to the editor. Sir,—Will you kindly insert the following letter re the codlin moth in your valuable paper. I have read from time to time in your paper about the codlin moth, and I see' they are urging the Government to pass an Act to make the people cut down their apple trees' thus' affected; but I thiuk it is a piece of great injustice tothe public as it would not eradicate the pest, if every apple tree in the country was cut down as they have got such a hold of the couutry-around, not ouly about the orchards but the bush is literally swarming with them, I am working iu the bush - at Olmupo and find them about nearly every tree' I cut down; besides, in the bnllabuls-a native fruit in the hush rthey are literally swarming in every stage. So you can see by this that by uuttiug the trees down we would not get rid of the pest. I think they will have to devise some other plan of coping with them, and I think the only way of getting rid of them is to try and find some other insect that will feed on them.—l am, etc., r ' Bushman. [We should be "ladifonr correspondent would send us some specimens, as JVC are sceptical as to the grub referred to baing the genuine codlin.—Ed. J
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Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 3209, 19 January 1893, Page 2
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231THE CODLIN MOTH. Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 3209, 19 January 1893, Page 2
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