Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-10-31T06:35:27.133Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Agricultural Pests of the Southern Provinces, Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Extract

The following notes embody the results of observations made during a year of service (May 1913 to May 1914) as the Entomologist in the Agricultural Department of the Southern Provinces, Nigeria. They do not, however, pretend to cover more than a very limited area of the Western Province, for on account of the desirability of beginning the work by making myself acquainted with local conditions by a careful study of the insect problems at the head-quarters of the Department, at Moor Plantation, Ibadan, I suggested that the first few months of my tour should be spent there, hoping afterwards to be afforded an opportunity, which unfortunately was not forthcoming, of making a more general survey of the insect pests of the country. I have confined my remarks to insects which are to be looked on as real pests, and have made no reference to the bionomics of other insects which I have observed to be associated with the indigenous flora. I have classified the pests according to the plant attacked, and have added to my account of each notes as to the measures found useful in dealing with them.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1914

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

* For a figure of this species see p. 242.

* [These weevils all belong to the genus Derelomus, there being no less than four species among them. The most abundant was D. kamerunicus, Fst., and the remaining three species appear to be undescribed.—ED.]