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FLORIDA BUGGIST 
Official Organ of The Florida Entomological Society, Gainesville, 
Florida. 
PROMI. “R: WATSON. 2 een ao ee Editor 
(ORT OR. Wile BERGER... 202s ee eee eee 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. 
According to the daily papers the city of West Palm Beach has 
undertaken a systematic campaign against mosquitoes. We trust 
that the movement is backed by trained men and will be such 
a success as to serve as an object lesson to the rest of the state. 
At least by this highly sensible and progressive action that city 
has been placed in a class by herself among Florida cities. May 
her tribe increase. May her hotels fill with tourists and her 
real estate men flourish as her own bay trees. 
The Entomologist of the Experiment Station was recently 
called to Florence Villa to advise in regard to combatting mos- 
quitoes. 
Our most enthusiastic bee man while out on a pleasure ride on 
a recent Sunday afternoon espied a swarm in a tall tree. Seizing 
his wife’s linen duster he climbed the tree, wrapped up the 
colony and carried it safely home. Wonder what his go-to- 
meeting (?) trousers look like? 
THE CUBAN CITRUS THRIPS IN FLORIDA 
In a collection of thrips recently received from Miami from 
Mr. A. C. Mason are numerous specimens of Frankliniella in- 
sularis (Franklin). This is by no means a welcome addition to 
the “bugs” of Florida. Not much is recorded in economic 
literature concerning this insect but from what we have been 
able to gather from men who have worked in Cuban groves it 
would seem that it is a much more serious pest than is our Flor- 
ida Flower Thrips and that spraying for it is a more or less 
regular procedure in the Isle of Pines. An effort will be made 
to discover how widespread this insect is in Florida and a close 
watch will be kept on its comings and goings. 
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