The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-01-17
DANGEROUS INSECTS
DISCOVERED IN TIME
Importance Of Plant inspection
Accumulated by Report Of
EntomolOgist.
trrom Thunaar AdrerlI.erl

Four grubs equally ~ bad ~ the
japanese beetle. according TO President
GifIard, Of the board Of agriculture and
forestry, were among the pests inter
eepted by EntOmologst Ehrhorn the
past month. Mr., GiiTard made the re.
mark when the report of the entomolo.
gist was under discussion at the month
~ meeting of the board yesterday.
During the month Of December the
territorial entomologist inspected 1889
pests and 3e,557 parcels coming in
twenty-five vessels carrying vegetable
matter. OF these numbers eight. one
lots and 2343 parcels were fumigated.
eighty.one lots and ninety.nine parcels
burned, and one lot and ninety-six par.
cells returned.
Speaking of pests intercepted Mr..
Ehrhorn says;
eighty packages of fruit and four
teen packages of vegetables were found
in the baggage of passengers and i'm.
migrants from the Orient. These be-
ing prohibited, they were destroyed by
burning,
zone queen bee arrived from Texas
and, finding it dead, we burned the
package and contents.
I'm the soil around plants from
Japan we found three distinct species
of Melolonthid grubs, one being an
Anomala species. This gtbup of insects
are exceedingly injurious to vegetation
and are closely allied to the japanese
beetle.
son a shipment of pinetree twigs
sent here from Japan for New Year
a 40 nj u IA n Anh 4 onh,
species), a Very common pest in Japan,
and fumigated the shipment for few
hours, letting it go.
New Ants Found.
'Three species of ants (Tetramori-
UNI guineense, sydney, (Monomorium
pharaomis), and (Gremestegaster
species, Japan, were taken in soil and
on vegetables during the month";
From Japan 26,192 bags of rice ar
rived which, being found free of weev-
lis, were passed,
Brother Newell of Hilo, attended to
six vessels, passing 690s packages.
Fifty bags of potatoes were cleaned of
soil before delivery and three crates
of celery were treated for the celery
| fungus. In the Inter-lsland inspection
SIC packages were passed and twenty.
nine refused shipment.
A large portion of the report is de-
voted to an account of an investiga-
ton made by the assistant entomolo-
| gist, d. B. Kuhns, of the fern weevil
an Importation from Australia, in the
forests back of Hilo. Mr.. Ehrhorn
states that this weevil (Syagrius fulvi.
tarsus, Fascoe) is already well estab
blished in the ferneries and on the
mountains back of Honolulu, where il
is doing great damage.
Mr.. Kuhns, although he found Other
things infesting ferns, discovered none
of the fern weevil, although he visited
seven localities, besides inspecting the
ferns and plants in thirty-six green
houses and yards about Hilo. His ex
plorations took him to an elevation Of
1000 feet.
Report Of Nurseryman.
According to the report of Davit
Haughs, forest nurseryman, for Decem
; Der, there were 1858 plants distributed
from the government nursery durin!
the month. OF this number 1890 wer
gratis. Besides these to the genera
public, the nursery has distributed 10,
$50 plants to plantation and other cor
porations. Brother Matthias Newell dis
tributed, from the Hilo nursery, 100
plants since Arbor Day, and for tn
year 1912 he distributed 1890 trees
|, the largest number for any year sine
the nursery was started.