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Notes on the more important Insects in Sugar-cane Plantations in Fiji

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Robert Veitch
Affiliation:
Entomologist to the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Ltd.*

Extract

The writer of the following notes has been engaged on entomological investigations in Fiji, Australia and Hawaii since 1914; the work has been entirely confined to the pests of sugar-cane and has been carried on mainly in the first-mentioned country, where insect depredations are very serious and materially reduce the profits on a considerable number of plantations. The investigation of these Fijian cane pests open up a field that is practically new, and so the work will probably continue for some considerable time. The length of the period that is likely to elapse before the publication of final results is such that it seems desirable to place on record a few of the main points in the life-histories of the more important insects of the sugar-cane plantations of that country, and so the writer has complied these notes containing summaries of their life-histories in so far as they are at present known to him.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1919

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