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pest. Where banana plants are found infested in Florida and elsewhere 

 in the States they should be destroyed immediately, and traps should 

 be laid by using strips of healthy banana trunks. In Florida strips of 

 banana plants proved more successful as a trap than did young plants 

 on an infested piece of ground. As the beetles congregate under and 

 about these strips they should be burned and the process repeated until 

 the beetles are eradicated. It is very important that the traps be 

 renewed, since the beetles are capable of living a considerable time 

 without food. 



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