THE INTEREST IX INSECTS 



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every day or two and kill all caterpil- 

 lars found. At Stonington their work- 

 has been going on for Eour seasons with 



the li blowing results. 



Date 



igjt 

 1937 

 1908 

 1939 



Tn December last, a colony of Gypsy 

 Moths was discovered in Wallingford, 



noises are generally connected with 

 swarming, and nowadays a very large 

 number of bee-keepers try their best 

 to have no swarming occur. 



One of the brightest young practi- 

 tioners shows lack of a working ac- 

 quaintance with the notes made by 

 queens, when he says in an agricul- 

 tural paper, speaking of the piping 

 of queens : 



"This is a sound that lew people 

 hear, but it is easily heard if the right 

 time is chosen. It resembles the note 



FIG. 2— FEMALE AND MALE GYPSY MOTHS. 

 (Natural size.) 



where it must have been present for 

 about four years judging from its 

 abundance and spread there. 



Though the total area infested is not 

 larger than at Stonington it is more 

 densely infested and over 75,030 egg- 

 clusters have been creosoted. What 

 success will attend our work, time 

 alone can tell, but no efforts will be 

 spared to rid the state entirely of this 

 most troublesome insect. 



On request to the author, bulletins 

 about this insect will be sent free to 

 any address as long as the supply lasts. 



Piping and Quabking of Queen Honey 

 Bees. 

 Although constant advance is being 

 made in bee-culture it is doubtful 

 whether bee-keepers at large have at 

 the present time as much practical 

 knowledge of the noises made by a 

 queen as they had 50 years ago. Noth- 

 ing strange about this, since these 



of the katydid more than anything else, 

 though it is neither so long nor so 

 loud. 



"This noise is made by the young 

 queens while still in their cells. It is 

 the war-cry of hostile forces." 



No hint is given as to more than one 

 tone, and yet the quahking of a queen 

 is something quite different from 

 piping, and more queens may be 

 heard quahking than piping. In- 

 stead of the piping being "made by the 

 young queens while still in their cells." 

 a queen never pipes while in the cell. 

 Piping is the note made by a queen 

 that is out of the cell, quahking is the 

 noise made by a queen that has not 

 yet emerged from her cell. 



To this some one may reply, "It 

 seems hardly worth while to have two 

 names for the same thing, for the only 

 difference between piping and what you 

 call quahking is that the latter is more 

 muffled because the queen is in the 

 cell." Anv one who has such a belief 



