Show Pest That Bids Bid Fair to Exterminate Itself One of the tile chief pests of Porto lorto PortoRico Rico Illco Is a large leaf eating Il weevil known locally as the tile It normally lays It Its eggs between two leaves thereafter sticking the 1111 leaves leave VI together to protect the eggs with a mucilage so no tough that the time little weevils when ready to emerge often have hare difficulty escaping from tram their nests n Dr Ur George Grorge N. N Wolcott of ot the tho Porto PortoRico Rico Insular experiment station recently re re- announced according to Bel- Bel once ence Service that the beetle likes Its lis eggs between two sheets of ot paper and will do so 80 when paper raper Is available even In preference to loaves lla The fhe Insects Insect's mucilage sticks the sheets BO so fast together that the young oung are totally unable to escape and hence are automatically trapped by Joy their parents This method of ot control is being widely used Lit Lit Literary Crary Digest |