Abstract
IN the New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology of June 1943, J. Muggeridge, of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Besearch, gives an account of the introduction of parasites of the small cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapœ) into New Zealand. Two species of parasite are taken into consideration, namely, the Braconid Apanteles glomeratus and the Chalcid Pteromalus puparum. Following the entry of the same species of white butterfly into North America, the Braconid species just mentioned was introduced from Europe in an effort to obtain a measure of control over the pest in question.
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The White Butterfly in New Zealand. Nature 154, 33–34 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154033b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154033b0