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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

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INSECT PESTS AND MODE OF CONTROL

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Pests of Stored Products

There have been recorded many introduced pests of grain, dried fruit, cereal food, flour, cocoa, carpets, animal skins, etc., and even of books. These occur in the orders Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Thysanura, Hemiptera, Diptera, and Psocoptera.