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FLORIDA BUGGIST 
Official Organ of The Florida Entomological Society, Gainesville, 
Florida. 
PROBS ict 1; WIT SON 22 ses aetna ee ae ee eee Editor 
Dr. KX. W. BERGER......Associate Editor, Acting Business Manager 
Issued once every three months. Free to all members of the 
Society. 
Subscription price to those who are not members is $1.00 per 
year in advance; 25c per copy. 
Fumigation of citrus trees may be revived in Florida. The 
Roessler and Hasslacher Chemical Company is conducting ex- 
tensive demonstrations at Windermere and elsewhere in Florida. 
Improved methods of generating and discharging the gas under 
the tents by means of a machine greatly simplify and shorten 
the operations. Particulars may be obtained by addressing Mr. 
J. B. Dales, Pine Tree Inn, Windermere, Fla. 
THE CALIFORNIA DELPHASTUS 
The whitefly-eating lady-beetle (Delphastus catalinae) con- 
tinues to multiply in several Florida groves at a most gratifying 
rate. In the grove near Bradentown they are present in count- 
less thousands and arrangements have been perfected for sbip- 
ping these beetles from there to different parts of the state. It is 
desired to introduce them into all citrus communities. it is 
thought that enough are now in sight to supply a colony to any 
grower who desires one. Anyone interested should apply to is 
county agent or to the Department of Entomology of the Experi- 
ment Station. A small charge, sufficient only to defray the cost 
of collecting and packing, is made for these.—J. R. W. 
AN OUTBREAK OF THE COTTON STAINER ON CITRUS 
Citrus and avocado growers in some of the southern counties 
of the state where, in order to escape the boll weevil, cotton has 
been raised this season, are having trouble with the Cotton 
Stainer (Dysdercus saturellus (H. S.)). This bug is a pyrrho- 
corid with deep red body and black wings and is sometimes 
called the “red bug.” This is a common name for the cotton 
stainer in the West Indies and would be appropriate and desir- 
able for Florida were it not preoccupied by those pestiferous 
mites, the larvae of Trobidium, with which we are all too well 
acquainted. 
On citrus the cotton stainer does about the same type of dam- 
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