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FLORIDA BUGGIST 
Official Organ of The Florida Entomological Society, Gainesville, 
Florida. 
PROF. J. Re “WATSON lr ee ee ee Editor 
PROB: WiEMON NEWELL Sore ae ee Associate Editor 
DR oH Wi CBE RGER 2) iver. 2 es See Business Manager 
Issued once every three months. Free to all members of the 
Society. 
Subscription price to non-members is $1.00 per year in ad- 
vance; 25 cents per copy. 
TRICHOGRAMMA MINUTUM TO THE RESCUE 
The issue of the Weekly News Letter of the U. S. D. A. for 
January 14 bears a reassuring message to the great corn belt. It 
has been found that the European Corn Borer seriously damages 
only sweet corn and the smaller varieties of flint corn, and that 
only in regions where the insect has two generations per year. 
In at least the northern part of the chief corn belt only one 
generation per year has appeared. Also little damage is done 
where weeds are kept down in corn fields, fence rows and waste 
places. And lastly, the above named common hymenopterous 
parasite is attacking a large percentage of the eggs. However, 
no one knows how many generations the insect would produce 
during a Florida season, nor its effect upon our flint corn and 
sugar cane. 
PLANT COMMISSIONER WILMON NEWELL, PRESIDENT 
OF THE ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 
Our society was signally honored at the St. Louis meeting of 
the American Association of Economic Entomologists by the 
election of one of its members as president of that association. 
In celebration of this honor some of his Florida friends ten- 
dered to Prof. Newell a surprise banquet on the evening of Janu- 
ary 12. There were present some fifty guests from the Univer- 
sity faculty and Plant Board offices, including the entire Plant 
Board (alias Board of Control). Mr. Hodges of Lake City, pres- 
ident of the Plant Board, acted as toastmaster. Toasts were 
responded to by the members of the Plant Board, the president 
and faculty of the University. 
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