ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., NOVEMBER, 1922. 



Insect Surveys. 



In 1917, after the United States had entered the World 

 War, the importance of increasing crop production by the 

 control of injurious insects was immediately recognized by 

 entomologists, and Dr. L. O. Howard, as Chief of the Federal 

 Bureau of Entomology, issued a circular, republished on the 

 editorial page of the NEWS for May, 1917, page 229, inviting 

 co-operation in the reporting of insect pests. With the data, 

 which it was hoped, would be sent to Washington, 



the central office will be able to tabulate and map the occurrence of all 

 injurious pests and to indicate to the men in the field the sections 

 which are threatened with insect damage and the means for combatting 

 same. With this information it will be possible to conduct a vigorous 

 campaign against threatening pests. 



The plan thus proposed resulted in the "Emergency Ento- 

 mological Service." the reports of which appeared in mimeo- 

 graphed form and extracts from them are to be found in the 

 XF.WS for June. 1917 (page 283), and subsequent numbers. 



It is evident that the data gathered during a period of war 

 are also useful in times of peace, and the American Asso- 

 ciation of Economic Entomologists, at its last annual meeting, 

 recommended that a National Insect Pest Survey be organized 

 under the direction of the Bureau of Entomology. Dr. Howard 

 arranged for such a survey under the charge of Mr. J. A. 

 Hyslop and Bulletin No. 1103 of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, dated July. 1922, gives the first results 

 of the Survey. It is by Mr. Hyslop and is entitled Sn unitary 

 of Insect Conditions tJiroitylionf thr United States during 

 121. It reads: 



The object of the insect-pest survey is to collect accurate and detailed 

 in formation, on the occurrence, distribution, ecology and relative dcstruc- 

 ti veil ess of insect pests throughout the United States, and to study this 



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