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" It escapes observation by adhering to the under side of the leaflet, which it closely resembles in colour. It must be a very severe gale to dislodge this insect. Unfortunately it is common not only in the Hervey group, but throughout the Pacific. An invasion... "
Jottings from the Pacific - Page 159
de William Wyatt Gill - 1885 - 248 pages
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The Leisure Hour, Volume 30

1881 - 816 pages
...coccophagus, or " Cocoa-eating Lopaphus." It spends its life exclusively upon the leaves of the cocoa palm. It escapes observation by adhering to the under side...much dreaded by the islanders as a plague of locusts ivould be in the East. I have seen immense groves of cocoa palms destroyed in a few months by this...
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Science Bulletin, Numéros 1 à 10

1912 - 258 pages
...plantation, the ground will be literally covered with the number blown out of the palms. Gill says: — An invasion of these voracious insects is almost as...much dreaded by the islanders as a plague of locusts in the East. I have seen immense groves of Coconut palms destroyed in a few months by this species...
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