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A second means of control is being employed by the Government 

 with gratifying results. This consists of the importation of parasites 

 and predators. By an arrangement with the Federal Government of the 

 United States, Mr. McLaine spends his summers in the vicinity of Boston 



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Winter nests of Brown-tail Moth. 

 From the Report of the Dominion Entomologist for 1911. 



collecting and rearing large numbers of the parasites and predators of the 

 Brown Tail and Gipsy Moths, which our neighbours have succeeded in 

 importing from Europe and establishing in their country. These are 

 sent to various places in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Quebec, and 

 it is hoped that some day they may become so. thoroughly established 



