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Sugar-cane Moth Borers (Diatraea spp.) in British Guiana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Harold E. Box
Harold E. Box
Affiliation:
Entomologist, Central Aguirre Sugar Company, Porto Rico.
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The writer had exceptional opportunities for studying sugar-cane moth borers while engaged as entomologist to one of the most progressive cane-growing concerns in British Guiana from September 1922 until January 1925. The observations and data that follow refer to some three thousand acres of typical cultivation situated on the west bank of the Berbice River, nearly opposite the town of New Amsterdam, in which locality the borer pest probably reaches its maximum in destructiveness.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , December 1925 , pp. 249 - 266
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1925

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