Show I AMAZON FLIES' FLIES BATTLE SUGAR MOTH IN GUIANA Fighting Insects Are re Loosed Upon Destructive Destructive tive Borers on Plantations GEORGETOWN British Guiana March 7 one CAp AP One insect Is s fighting lighting mans man's battle against another In the drive to eradicate the moth bore borest pest st from British Guiana's sugar pl plantations Thousands Thousands- or of parasite Amazon lies flies for lor which Dr J. J G G. G My Myers rs risked his life lite and health have been released on five plantations It is is' is hoped the moth pests that cost the colony's premier industry thousands of ot dollars yearly will be annihilated For five live years ears the doctor and assIstants assistants as as- s sought a means of of- fighting the he bore borc It was not until two years e rs ago that he discovered the existence and fighting qualities of the Amazon Ama Amazon zon fly Then with a party of natives natives Dr Myers started out on an expedition up the Amazon He almost lost his life when their launch was wrecked in the rapids and all scie scientific instruments instruments ments lost A boatman saved the expeditions expedition's ex ex- expeditions expeditions expedition's leader |