62 THE FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST 
Mr. F. M. Bather, a member of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
and Sciences of N. Y., and Mrs. Bather, spent part of February 
in Gainesville colleeting lepidoptera. 
Other recent visitors to the campus were Prof. Lounsberry 
of South Africa and Prof. Craighead of the Pennsylvania Sta- 
tion, and C. B. Pierson of Los Angeles, Cal. 
THE PALMETTO WEEVIL CATCHES A RIDE 
Mr. Chris Waldron of East Palatka writes as follows: “En- 
closed see specimen of a beetle found clinched fast on a five 
months’ old chick’s head, clinched so tightly that it seemed im- 
possible to tear it loose without injury to the chick. I dropped 
kerosere oil on the beetle until it loosened.” The insect was the 
palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus). As this large 
beetle is over an inch in length and of corresponding breadth and 
thickness, it must have been something of a load for the chick. 
It would be interesting to know how the weevil happened to at- 
tach itself to the chick’s head. Did the chick attempt to lunch 
on the beetle only to find the tables turned on him? 
DUSTING costs less than 
a liquid spraying. 
Dusting materials cost more 
than materials for liquid spray- 
ing, but this is more than coun- 
terbalanced by the big saving 
in time and labor, less cost of 
the duster, and much smaller 
depreciation, repairs, and oper- 
ating cost. 
Dusting differs from spraying 
chiefly in that Insecticides and 
Fungicides are applied in a 
powdered form; dry instead of 
wet. Water merely carries the 
active ingredients to the plant, 
where it evaporates and leaves 
a dry powder. Spraying requires 
50 lbs. of water to carry 1 lb. of 
NIAGARA COMBINATION DUSTER poison to the foliage. In dust- 
This is the Niagara Power Potato peg eats ce the carrier; it is ever 
Duster. Shown here fitted with flexible present and does not have to be 
distributor pipe and drop platform for use pumped and carried. The chem- 
in orchard dusting. For See paving icals used are fundamentally 
Only Tien aacneduten Gusting potatoes, the same with either product. 
etc. Driver and one man to operate dis- For further information write 
tributor pipe needed for orchard use. our Distributor 
J. SCHNARR & CO. 
Orlando, Fla. 
NIAGARA SPRAYER COMPANY 
Middleport, N. Y. 
