The Pocket Guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, Bermuda, the Spanish Main, Surinam, and the Panama Canal

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The Biological Control of the Weed Clidemia hirta, D. Don., in Fiji

Bulletin of Entomological Research ◽

10.1017/s0007485300031655 ◽

1933 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 345-348 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Hubert W. Simmonds

Keyword(s):

Biological Control ◽

Central America ◽

West Indies ◽

Natural Order ◽

The West ◽

British Guiana ◽

Rubber Plantations ◽

Northern Portion ◽

The Rich ◽

Almost All

The plant Clidemia hirta belongs to the natural order Melostomaceae. It is of shrubby growth, with a hard tough stem and produces quantities of dark purple berries, filled with minute seeds. These berries are much relished by certain birds, which feed upon them and distribute the seeds. The leaves are covered with fine hairs and the plant is not eaten by stock.The plant is a native of the West Indies, Central America and the Northern portion of South America. It is supposed to have been introduced into Fiji from British Guiana at some time prior to 1890. That this was the origin of the plant is supported by slight differences observed by the writer in the foliage of the Trinidad, Panama and British Guiana forms of the plant, the Fijian one closely resembling those of the last named country.In Fiji the plant was first observed along the fences of paddocks in the Waimanu Valley, whence it spread with great rapidity, quickly becoming a weed of major importance. By 1919, when the writer arrived in the country, thousands of acres were covered with it to the exclusion of almost all other growth. On good soil it formed a stand five or six feet high, through which the cattle were only able to keep open narrow paths. Not only did it rapidly occupy the open grass lands, particularly the rich dairying and fattening country, but it thrived almost equally well under the shade of coconut and rubber plantations, leading to loss of many fallen nuts and entailing greatly increased weeding costs.

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Descriptions and Records of parasitic Hymenoptera from British Guiana and the West Indies

Bulletin of Entomological Research ◽

10.1017/s0007485300035252 ◽

1931 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 267-277 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

J. G. Myers

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Sugar Cane ◽

West Indies ◽

British Museum ◽

Economic Importance ◽

The West ◽

British Guiana ◽

Parasitic Hymenoptera ◽

Imperial Institute

The following notes are based almost entirely upon actual rearing records, the hosts in most cases being insects of economic importance. The greatest attention has been paid to parasites of the small moth-borers of sugar-cane (Diatraea spp.). The systematic work has been done entirely at the British Museum and would have been impossible without the facilities in literature and collections there, and the great help of Mr. D. S. Wilkinson and Dr. C. Ferrière, of the Imperial Institute of Entomology. Types of new species are in the British Museum.

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