Parowan Times | 1929-09-25 | Page 6 | Ants by the Millions Used to Worry Beetles

ants by the millions used to worry vorry beetles without black ants no cocoa reads a sign posted tit at the en entrance trane of if a great plantation lin lollin in central java it does nor noi go unheeded either for the natives hand in some nests of these little creatures every lear ear and receive payment in return these black ants lle upon trees in tested by the white cocoa louse neither the louse not nor the ants in lure the trees the real enemy la Is a certain beetle whose name Is helo pellis which also attacks the tea lea plant it ties has beet been found thill that when the hie black ants are present the ullo fields falls to injure the trees AD patently parent ly this bap Sucking pest Is dis turned by the activity of the tints for the latter inner do not attack the hie beetle this Is why the black ants are pro ino food Is pr oIled for or them by picking the white cocoa louse from the shells of the fruit where they congregate rons regate and placing them thein on the cocoa trees to attract the ants and disturb the beetles