Science Versus Flies
p. 11 · Read in the full issue
And Beetles
Java Parasites for Fiji and Samoa
THE Dutch Airways airliner brought to Sydney on November 9 several hun dred black beetles addressed to Mr.
W. B. Gurney, entomologist of the N.S.W.
Department of Agriculture, for tranship ment to the next outgoing Matson steamer to Suva. The beetles are para sitic enemies of the common house fly.
Mr. H. W. Simmons, of Cremorne, Sydney (says “Sydney Morning Herald”) is searching for insects to combat the rhinoceros beetle in Fiji and Western Samoa, and also for parasitic enemies of the house fly. The Department of Health has undertaken the safe storage of the insects in Australia and their quick despatch to the Pacific Islands.
The Carpenter airliner recently carried to New Guinea a number of parasites known as Pleurotropis parculus, a very small wasp, and a natural enemy of a coconut pest which has recently damaged plantations in New Britain and New Ire land.