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Flax Caterpillars in Kenya Colony, with Special Reference to the Limitations of the Roping Method of Combating them

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

F. W. Dry
F. W. Dry
Affiliation:
Recently Assistant Government Entomologist, Kenya Colony
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Caterpillars on flax in Kenya Colony are farm pests of the first rank. They belong to more than one species, but the one most commonly reared from material from the field is Phytometra (Plusia) orichalcea, F.; Heliothis obsoleta, F., is also met with.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , May 1921 , pp. 99 - 102
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1921

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References

* Report of the Proceedings of the Second Entomological Meeting, held at Pusa on the 5th and 12th February 1917.