The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-21
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A Committee Should Be Appointed.
81 say that this whole question
should be turned over to a committee
of scientists, who should thoroughly
investigate the matter before making
any statements in regard to what is
attacked and what is not People say
that this and that fruit has been at
tackled by the fruit fly, but ! do not
care to say what fruits are immune
until have finished my investigations.
have got jars and jars of insects
that | have bred from different fruits.
! have seen many reports that the
alligator pear, the wild guava and the
papaia have been attacked, but per-
sonally l have not yet found that they
have been attacked, and have a great
many people looking for it. l have
raised nineteen flies out of one mango.
The larvae will remain in the fruit
about two weeks; it takes about thirty
days for the egg to mature to the adult
stage
When Was II introduced?
ut was first noticed last June, but
growers state that they noticed it
years before How long the fruit fly
has been here l cannot tell"
President Gilmore-"Judge Cooper
says that he had his fruit damaged as
far back as three years ago"
J. E. Higgins, U. s. agricultural ex-
perimental station, said that they had
found it at the station in the different
fruits to which Ehrhorn had referred
the cultivated guava the mango, the
peach, and some indication in the
strawberry guava, but he could not see
that it was in the strawberry guava,
because he had not bred it out. They
had bred ffty-fve adults out of four
mangoes.
81 am strongly of the opinion that it
has not been in the island very many
years, Higgins continued. 81 have ar
rived at this conclusion because, first,
the insect is distinct, even the layman
If he saw it, would recognize that it
was something different from the
ordinary; secondly, that entomologists
here were always collecting in the
places where this fly would be found,
If here, that is, among the guava
plants; thirdly, that certain of the en-
tomologists had stated that they ex-
pected this fly would appear here.
believe that the fly was first intro
duced here about last July. Putting
these facts together, l am strongly OF
the opinion that it could not have been
here in very large numbers long before
that, 1t has been multiplying so rap
idly that it could not have been intro
duced many years ago.
81 am particularly interested now In
methods of controlling or stamping out
this insect l do not know whether
that phase of the question is yet to be
discussed, so l will not say anything
on it,"
Governor Frear Sympathetic.
Governor Frear said that he thought
that all were duly impressed with the
seriousness of the presence of the fly
here 1t seemed to be the worst pest
that has ever attacked fruits here, and
il should be taken hold of vigorously
and Immediately, so far as practicable
The first problem was naturally one
for the eXperts-the entomOlogists.
When they had decided what course
to pursue it would become a question
for the government and the people.
There should be action, of course, by
both, One of the problems is that Of
keeping the fly from spreading to the
other islands.
There seemed TO be ample author
ity for taking the necessary action for
this work on the part of the board of
agriculture and forestry. He believed
that the regulation had already been
prepared, and would soon be in force.
Wanted, a Parasite.
AS to the eradication of the pest