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FEW countries have been more plagued by the importation of insect pests than the Hawaiian Islands; in none have such extraordinary results followed the introduction of beneficial species to destroy them. By far the most conspicuous of the former class, and hitherto the most injurious, have been the scale-insects. The number of species of this group, which have spread throughout the islands, is remarkable, and not less so the enormous multiplication of individuals of many or most of these species.
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PERKINS, R. The Introduction of Beneficial Insects into the Hawaiian Islands.1. Nature 55, 499–500 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/055499a0
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