Regiment of Women
HE astounding things that may be happening on the shoots of your best roses in spring were described in a racy and informative talk on insect pests in the "Wild Life" series from 1ZB recently. Each of those little eggs that you have neglected to deal with during the winter hatches a female aphis who shortly gives birth to a daughter; this daughter staggers immediately to her feet, digs her beak into the rose bud and begins sucking. Within 48 hours she has made her mother a grandmother, but grandmother does not sit back then with folded hands-she goes on bearing many more daughters, and the tenth generation from one solitary aphis, if unchecked by natural enemies, would need a number with 30 noughts to describe it, and would weigh as much as 500 million fat men. Not until the season is well . advanced does this happy feminine party pull itself together and begin producing a few males who will enable it to lay weather-resisting eggs for the coming winter. At one stage the speaker was inciting us to get a good lens and watch these doings, but later on he recommended ‘a good spray pump to put a stop to them,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 312, 15 June 1945, Page 12
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205Regiment of Women New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 312, 15 June 1945, Page 12
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