Abstract
A CONSIDERABLE portion of the Bulletin before us is the outcome of work undertaken with the definitely economic object of procuring and transporting to the battlefield natural enemies of the beetle Anomala orientalis, which, by reason of the havoc wrought in the larval stage on the roots of the sugarcane, is a serious pest in the plantations, and was causing heavy losses in the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. It is gratifying to learn that the quest of the entomologists was entirely successful, and that through their labours the foe appears to have been vanquished, and thereby all mankind benefited in the saving of large quantities of one of our most valuable articles of food. The ally which the entomological staff summoned to the aid of the sugar-planters was the “wasp” Scolia manilae. It is perhaps prudent here to indicate that the term “wasp studies” must not be understood to apply solely to the true Diplopterous wasps, the Vespidæ; it is used in this publication as a convenient term including many families of aculeate Hymenoptera other than the bees.
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L., O. Economic Entomology in the Philippines1. Nature 105, 600 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105600a0
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