. Report of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry of the Territory of Hawaii for the period ... Agriculture; Forests and forestry; Insects. 154 abundant upon the Eugenia trees, it is now a decidedly uncom- mon insect, so thorough has been the work of the parasite. {Adoretiis iimbrosiis, var. tcnuiniaculatus, Waterh.) Upon returning from Fiji, Mr. Muir reported the cacao plants of that country saved from the ravages of a beetle closely allied to the above, by means of a fence of bamboo sticks about i inch in diameter, placed Ij4 inches apart, 3 or 4 inches from the plants and r
. Report of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry of the Territory of Hawaii for the period ... Agriculture; Forests and forestry; Insects. 154 abundant upon the Eugenia trees, it is now a decidedly uncom- mon insect, so thorough has been the work of the parasite. {Adoretiis iimbrosiis, var. tcnuiniaculatus, Waterh.) Upon returning from Fiji, Mr. Muir reported the cacao plants of that country saved from the ravages of a beetle closely allied to the above, by means of a fence of bamboo sticks about i inch in diameter, placed Ij4 inches apart, 3 or 4 inches from the plants and rising about 10 inches above the plant. EXPERIMENT WITH THE JAPAJSTESE Fig. 6. These vines were grown indoors and placed in June in the Government Nursery grounds near a grape arbor badly infested with Japanese beetles, and a % inch, mesh screen placed over one of them, as shown in the illustration. The photograph was taken ten days later. But the beetles were too much even for the screen for it Avas subse- quently penetrated by them and the vine ruined. (Original; photograph by Jacob Kotinsky.) To ascertain the effect of a similar fence upon our very much abused rose bushes by the Japanese beetle, lath and %-inch mesh wire screens were used in the construction of similar fences. At. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hawaii. Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. Honolulu
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