Prickly Pear (1933)

Titles read: “Prickly Pear. Australia’s prize pest.“ Australia. Various shots of the ’Prickly Pear’ or cactus plants growing in the wild. Commentator says the former garden ornament has become a pest, spreading rapidly across 100 million acres. The plants have wrapped themselves around a bottle tree and are slowly strangling it. We are shown how to get at the fruit inside the plant. Caterpillars of the cactoblastic moth are seen eating away at the prickly pears. The leaves are cut open to show them crawling around inside. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), an