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Show 0 A WEEVIL PARASITE. A ptira.site has been rioted up on the North Tract is the natural enemy ene-my of the weevil; Mrs. Parasite deposits de-posits her eggs in the cocoon of the weevil, and hers mature faster than the rightful owners do, so that the big lubbering interloper gobbles up the tiny weevil larva and grows fat; and he lives on what the weevil should have gotten. When matured out he flies to do the trick over again. Wherever these flies have been noted, that field oi fields is freer from' weevil. The fly will he studied and his welfare looked after so that i.a cr.it live as.d prosper. Only a .i:outh or t ,-. o ago there was a long piece in the National Geographic Magazine of the importation into Hawaii of the natural enemy of a ' post they had there on the pineapple; i and when the parasite was found and brought iii, the pest was speed-lily speed-lily reduced in its depredations, j The same things will hold true in Delta. o Mrs. James Wilkins went to California Cali-fornia to visit her son James Andrew Wilkins and his wife. o Coleman Lamps, Lanterns, and Camp Stoves, and Camp Cots, one small tent at the Didta Furniture Co. 73 o |
