Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 8

Example of Biological

p. 137 · Read in the full issue

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Control

Last year the Senior Ento mologist in Fiji, learning that the green vegetable bug (Nezara viri dula) was doing extensive damage to vegetables on Pitcairn Island, offered to send a wasp parasite to Pitcairn.

The offer was accepted, and a consignment of the parasites was sent via New Zealand.

The Fiji official now has a letter from the Education Officer, Pitcairn, saying that the parasite has brought about such excellent con trol of the green vegetable bug that, although the Islanders usually have to spend many hours killing bugs each season, there have not been more than two dozen bugs found this year.

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