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Throughout the fiscal year the Division continued to per- 

 form the various functions as outlined under Chapter 128 of 

 the General Lav/s, Sections 16 - 31A inclusive. 



As has been detailed in this report, the functions all deal 

 with plant pest control. The various methods employed by this 

 Division to stop the introduction and spread of potentially 

 dangerous plant pests is a full time job using all of the various 

 regulatory techniques available to us. 



One of our current projects, the European Chafer control 

 program, is an example of the various methods used to control a 

 dangerous plant pest. Modem traps using chemical and natural 

 baits designed by entomologists are used to trap the pest in an 

 effort to determine where the chafer has spread to, the use of 

 a minimal amoiont of an insecticide used at the right time, and 

 the use of regulations and quarantines all are employed to give 

 us good control of a plant pest with no ill effects to our en- 

 vironment . 



It is gratifying to know that while control programs of . 

 this nature have been successful in suppressing plant pests, 

 there has been no apparent adverse impact on. the environment. 

 V/e realize that future control programs must fully utilize the 

 best combination of natural, biological, legal, chemical and 

 any other types of control that might become available. V/e 

 also feel quite optimistic about any possible adverse impact 

 to the environment by the use of our control programs. Today's 



