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FLORIDA BUGGIST 
- Official Organ of The Florida Entomological Society, Gainesville, 
Florida. 
PROF Jack. WATSON... eit Editor 
WORE. Wa GERGER. onan cl ee Associate Editor 
eee RAGDON 4.2) bee oes Business Manager 
Issued once every three months. Free to all members of the 
Florida Entomological Society. 
Subscription price to those who are not members of the So- 
ciety—60c per year in advance; 15c per copy. 
It is the earnest desire of the editors that our members, and 
especially those outside of Gainesville, should send in brief para- 
graphs for the Buggist. Nearly every member must run across 
things that would be of general interest. We desire also any 
personal items concerning our members or other entomologists 
who may be in Florida. These notes should reach us by the 
tenth of the month of publication, March tenth for the next issue. 
Please note the 25% increase in size of the Buggist this instar. 
With the new volume we expect to molt and come out with en- 
tirely new headgear. 
Aphids, especially Myzus persicae, the Garden Aphid, seem to 
be more numerous than usual at this time of the year. This is 
probably due to the unusual amount of damp cold weather dur- 
ing the past month which has checked their parasites and pre- 
dators. 
The colony of Delphastes catalinae, the whitefly-eating lady- 
beetle introduced from California into a grove near Bradentown 
by the Station Entomologist, is reported to be spreading at a 
highly satisfactory and encouraging rate. 
A BRANCH OF THE SOCIETY IN FT. MYERS 
Altho less than two years old our society is about to have a 
branch and it is larger than was the parent society at the time of 
birth. Twelve men in Ft. Myers have formed “The Lee 
County Entomological Society” and have applied for member- 
ship as a branch society. The members are 8S. B. Walker, Pres. ; 
Fritz Fuchs, Vice-Pres.; Roy Thompson, Secretary and Treasur- 
er; C. A. Bass, R. G. Bateman, W. L. Benedict, F. S. Ballentine, 
R. G. Oliphant, P. F. Robertson, J. L. Sheldon, A. S. White, all of 
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