Still Battling The

Rhino Beetle

Dr. C. P. Hoyt, entomologist for South Pacific Commission, returns to East Africa in mid-January. He recently spent 18 months in West Africa collecting predators and parasites that might be useful in the control of the rhinoceros beetle in the South Pacific. He shipped three species of insects which preyed on the larvae and adults of the beetle from Nigeria to Fiji, for use there and distribution to other in fested islands. Dr. Hoyt now goes to Zanzibar and to the coconut areas between Mombasa and Dar es Salaam.