How to send insects for identification

Abstract

There are many thousands of insect species (types) in Papua New Guinea. Most of these do us no harm, but some are harmful because they damage our crop plants. They can do this in many different ways such as by eating the leaves, by boring in the stems and by sucking out the plant juices. Before we can work out a way to stop an insect from damaging a crop, we must find out which insect it is . This is done by collecting some of the insects which seem to be doing the damage and sending them to the nearest D.P.I. entomologist.