JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICA ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



DECEMBER, 1922 



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There is in eastern New England a nice illustration of the complexities 

 arising from the indiscriminate introduction of plants and animals. 

 It is well known that a considerable number of our most common and 

 noxious weeds are introduced species. The same is true of insects. 

 The European Com Borer is one of our newest pests and not content 

 in this county with its presiunably preferred food plant, corn, it has 

 turned to weeds and in the succulent growth on abandoned market 

 garden areas in the environs of Boston has multiplied so extensively 

 that in spite of the great destruction of the pests in cultivated plants 

 following ordinary agricultural and market garden practices, there are 

 hosts of moths coming from the weed areas and reinfesting in extreme 

 degree not only the favorite food plant, com, but the insects, apparently 

 driven by scarcity of available material, are breeding upon other garden 

 crops, such as celery, spinach and beets and herbaceous ornamentals, 

 particularly dahlias, chrysanthemums and asters. The weeds, while 

 seriously infested, reproduce abundantly and appear to add greatly to 

 an infestation which might otherwise be only moderately injurious. 



Current Notes 



Mr. Lachlan Gibbs, a British entomologist, died in London, England, March 1, 

 1922. 



Mr. Frank J. Rimoldi, Cornell 1916, is teaching entomology this year at the Uni- 

 versity of California. 



Mr. W. R. Walton of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology spent a day at the Frederic- 

 ton, N. B., Laboratory recently. 



According to Science, the entomological laboratory and offices of the Station 

 Agronomique de la Guadeloupe were recently destroyed by fire. 



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