San Juan Record | 1934-01-18 | Page 6 | Pest That Bids Fair to Exterminate Itself

pest that bids fair to exterminate itself one of tho the chief pests of porto rico nice Is a large leaf eating weevil known locally as tho the Ya faquita quita 11 it normally lays its eggs between two leaves thereafter sticking the leaves to together gother to protect the eggs with a mucilage so tough that tho the little weevils when ready to emerge often have hare difficulty escaping from their nests dr george N wolcott of the porto co insular experiment station recently announced according to science service that the beetle likes laying its eggs between two sheets of paper find will do so when paper Is available even in preference to leaves the insects mucilage sticks the sheets so fast together that the young are totally unable to escape and hence aro are automatically trapped by their parents this method of control Is being widely used literary digest