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Prickly Pear history

Cages containing prickly pear and Cactoblastis cactorum moths and their eggs at the Commonwealth Prickly Pear Field Station, circa 1930. (Western Downs regional Council).

It has been 90 years since the Cactoblastis Memorial Hall was erected. Prickly Pear took over Chinchilla, and the Argentinian […]

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