The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-02-06
INSECT PESTS.

The Maui blight called which has appeared this island
and which will probably do immense amount OF damage in
stance OF how cey things imported into these islands Many
OF the ills suffering from the results similar careless
And the trouble people will not learn from experience
Even when scientific keep pests
those who object their rulings and who why plants
should not be allowed to in whether infected
There could not be better instance the difference between scen
thc than Maui blight been
curse to all the grazing lands in the Territory 1t cost grazers hun
dreds thousands of dollars keep
gripping Graduating the plant sought In other
blight appeared Maui apparently destroyed antana and
the unscenhc rushed the notion that they had received
boon This blight examined by Professor koebe and by PROBES
Perkins and pronounced dangerous other trees notably
coffee also all fruits Did this advice have any effect upon
peope Not bit They insisted that the scientists knew little moth
ing that they could see for themselves that the blight killed the Ian
and they spread the blight Maui and of has been
wu introduced into Oahu and doubt some idiot has taken to
Hawaii where will inJu the coffee plantations which are making so
brave struggle for existence and which have enough to contend with
already
On the other hand the entomoog took up the matter fighting
scientific side Professor Koebee Mexico the
habitat of that shrub and studied it. In Mexico the shrub does
riot does here There must be reason and the reason
found in number OF various insects which attacked the shrub
Specimens OF these obtained and the islands where they
were bred by Professor Perkins But they were not turned mdscrn
netey loose They carefully studied and the question whether
they would attack other plant watched The result Of the
Peen was hat some OF the insects were rejected as possibly da
and only those retained which would prey upon antana
We have thus effective remedy against anana which has
been obtained by the enOmoogsts and have spurious remedy
remedy since though kills down the antana for time grows again
uxuiany and which injurious to fruit trees of various
kinds striving
find them injured by people who consider they now all
Other countries suffer from the careessness but people
gradually learning that the be exercised protecting
epemCs, exercised protecting human
from smallpox, cholera yellow and other ills The borer
which has done much damage introduced So
the leaf hopper So the Japanese beetle Had had proper
system of inspection all these three evils might have been avoided and
hundreds of thousands of dollars might have been saved But did
inspect and suffer did inspect had
charge who utterly ignorant Of their business and that
than doing nothing all because false security
The introduction OF the boweew into Texas has from the
Caeness and the government the United States
spending quarter of million of dollars fight the evil and and
oca it The gypsy moth which has much injury Nassa-
cus another introduction The plague of rabbits Australia
yet another Rabbits have the Australians millions OF pounds
injury To ourselves, rice birds have the planters
thousands thousands of dollars in loss the and thou
sands and thousands of dollars in gunpowder and shot them
Even the antana which the basis of this article
les introduced 1t to be garden shrub but has spread
thousands upon thousands Of The o which be
the islands introduction The blight which
put end to the growth of musk another introduction We
have had quite enough these ntroducons time that called
strict halt