16 N. S. ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



1. Inspection. 



According to the regulations issued under the Destructive Insect Pest and Plant 

 Disease Act, 1911, all nursery stock entering this province from other parts of Canada or 

 from the United States, is subject to the fumigation and inspection at one of the two 

 ports of entry, viz. Digby or Truro. No stock is allowed to enter except through these 

 ports and its import is restricted to two months in the spring and two months in the 

 autumn. To help pay a part of this cost a small inspection fee is charged. 



In addition to the inspection at the port of entry, a farm to farm orchard inspection 

 has been made, in an effort to exterminate, if possible, the San Jose scale, which was 

 scattered all through the fruit district on imported nursery stock. Though it would be 

 unsafe to say that this pest has now been wiped out in Nova Scotia, it has at least been 

 brought very close to that point. Should it eventually prove that the efforts of the en- 

 tomological inspectors have been successful, it will be an achievement unique in the 

 history of economic entomology. 



In our field inspection we were able to secure a very complete and accurate census 

 of the fruit industry, the condition of the orchards, and the pests with which they are 

 affected. In fact, we believe that we have the most complete records in existence re- 

 garding this matter, and this information, which is on file at the office on the card index 

 plan, is of immense value in carrying on the work of the department. In addition to the 

 foregoing the officials of this division co-operate with those of the Dominion in a cam- 

 paign against the Brown-tail moth. 



2. Investigation. 



During the past two years laboratories have been established with insectaries at- 

 tached, for carrying on investigations regarding various orchard pests. The Smith's 

 Cove laboratory is situated in the midst of a bad apple maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella) 

 infestation, and from this centre our work against this pest is carried out. Our Kent- 

 ville laboratory, which is situated on the grounds of the Dominion Experimental Sta- 

 tion is the chief point from which we have been prosecuting our experiments with the 

 green apple bug (Lygus communis var. novascotiensis Knight). We have also a wire 

 house insectary at Truro, where general work is being done. At all these different places 

 we have been making a special study of the different sucking insects that attack the 

 apple and pear. For the results of this work the reader is referred to the Proceedings of 

 this Society, and to Bulletins 8 and 9 of the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture. 



In addition to the foregoing an extensive investigation of insecticides and fungi- 

 cides to be used by fruit growers is being made, in co-operation with the officials of the 

 Dominion Branch. 



3. Educational. 



The teaching of entomology to the students at the Agricultural College is one of the 

 duties of the Provincial Entomologist and this occupies a part of the time during the 

 dormant season. A certain number of classes are also taken with the students of the 

 Rural Science School. 



In addition a certain amount of demonstration work is done in various orchards 

 throughout the Annapolis Valley, which properly comes under this head. 



4. The Insect Collection. 



During the short time in which this Division has been in existence something has 

 been done in the way of building up a representative collection of Nova Scotian insects. 

 No attempt at systematic collecting has been made. The specimens we have brought 



