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FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST 
Official Organ of The Florida Entomological Society, Gainesville, 
Florida. 
RP SR an WGA TS OIN eet RS ie ee a me eae ee ea 2 ees Editor 
Wal MONS NEWELL 22 205 2 hea ee eee Associate Editor 
AROHS BEYER): 2522022 © Se ere eee eeaeee Business Manager 
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THE ENTOMOGENOUS FUNGI 
October was an unusually rainy month in Florida. According 
to the Weather Bureau the average for the state was 8.28 inches 
above normal, and only one station in peninsular Florida (New 
Smyrna) reported a deficiency. There was not a single day 
without rain at some station. Due undoubtedly to this metero- 
logical condition the entomogenous fungi have been unusually 
efficient this fall thruout the citrus belt. A careful count of some 
hundreds of citrus leaves at Gainesville showed that the fungi 
had killed 97.2% of the fall brood of whitefly—a percentage of 
kill seldom equalled in commercial spraying. In the order of 
their efficiency the fungi ranked as follows: the brown fungus, 
the red aschersonia, Microcera, the cinnamon fungus. 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS 
Bulletin 165 of the Experiment Station and the October num- 
ber of the Quarterly Bulletin of the State Plant Board are of 
unusual interest and importance to Florida and other cotton- 
growing states. In this bulletin Mr. Geo. D. Smith presents “A 
Preliminary Report Upon an Improved Method of Controlling 
the Boll Weevil”. “The gist of the method may be summarized 
in two sentences, as follows: 
1. Remove all squares from the cotton plants about June 5 
and destroy them. 
2. Follow this at once with a thoro application of calcium 
arsenate or lead arsenate, using a suitable dusting machine.” 
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