JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



AUGUST, 1916 



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The meeting of the Pacific Slope Branch will be held just after the 

 forms for this number are closed and much too late for any notice in 

 this issue. We take this opportunity of extending best wishes to our 

 Pacific Slope members and to express the hope that the San Diego 

 meeting may be a most pleasant and profitable one. 



The Nova Scotia Entomological Society, a branch of the well known 

 Entomological Society of Ontario, was organized in August 1915. 

 The recently issued proceedings (No. 1) of this organization contains 

 valuable articles relating to both economic and systematic entomology 

 and may be taken as an earnest of a long and successful career. The 

 accounts of injury to apple trees by the false tarnished plant bug and 

 the date relating to the apple maggot are particularly interesting to 

 the economic entomologist. 



The food value of insects, as pointed out by one writer in this issue, 

 is most certainly worthy of investigation. Many species are very 

 abundant under certain conditions and if methods of collecting and 

 preparing them for food are well understood, it would mean much 

 for many in moderate circumstances and there is the possibility that 

 studies along this line would not be without significance for the epi- 

 cure. There is not only an opportunity to take advantage of the 

 unusual numbers of insects which now occur under natural conditions 



