Philippines Bug Eradicates
p. 39 · Read in the full issue
Taro Pest
From Our Own Correspondent.
Honolulu, Jan. 10.
IF your taro patches are suffering from the destructive leaf hopper, drop a line to Mr. D. T. Fullaway, entomo logist and chief plant inspector with the Board of Agriculture, Honolulu, Hawaii.
After long and patient research, he decided upon the introduction of the Philippines egg-sucking bug and a ship ment of them was turned loose among great taro patches near Honolulu. The bugs swiftly exterminated the hoppers.
Until then, distracted taro farmers imag ined their industry was doomed, for most of the fields were kept in pro duction only by the use of oil sprays, the cost of which was too high for pro
fitable production.
Mr. Fullaway now is working on the possibilities of introducing Japanese fire flies to destroy certain types of pest snails. One of the snails is the inter mediate host of the liver fluke.
Colonel R. W. Tate, C.M.G., C.8.E., who was the first civil Administrator of Western Samoa, from 1919 to 1923, died recently in New Zealand.