Insect Pests
ITH the clearing away of the bush and the sowing down of large areas with grasses, clovers, and other cultivated crops, an appreciable change was bound to take place among native insects. Two of our most destructive pasture insects to-day are grass
grub and Porina caterpillar, native forms which were, and are, adapted to open, unbushed country. In early times when open country was limited in amount, those two insect types must have been severely restricted in their range. All they had to do was " multiply abundantly and people the land." The army of worms soon began to
play havoc with the crops and the early settlers quickly realised what was happening, so they started to discuss ways and means of dealing with the prob-lem.-(From "Microphone Round-table,’ 3YA, June 19.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 55, 12 July 1940, Page 8
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132Insect Pests New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 55, 12 July 1940, Page 8
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