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Crawford, Frazer Smith (c. 1829 - 1890) |
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| Entomologist and Photolithographer | |
| Born: c. 1829 Scotland. Died: 29 October 1890 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. | |
| Frazer Smith Crawford was a photolithographer for the Surveyor General’s office from around 1868. He was responsible for finding many natural parasites to combat the many insects which were devastating Australian and American crops and orchards at the time. This resulted in the exportiation of Australian ladybirds to kill off scale insects in California and the identification of a natural predator to the cottony cushion scale insect attacking South Australia’s orange orchards. |
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