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.HOUSEHOLD AND S.TORED-PRODUCTS I IT SECTS 
TERMITES ( Reticulitermes spp. ) 
Virginia. C. R. Willey (February 27): Termites have "been swarming in 
houses in and around Richmond! for the past several weeks. 
District of Columbia. R. A. St. George (February 27): During the week of 
February 2^ ,many requests have been received for inf ormation concerning 
the control of the , subterranean termite, R. flavipes Kol. , adults of 
which have been swarming in numbers in households in Washington, D. C, 
and vicinity. 
Michigan, E. I, McDaniel (March k)i V/e have received our first report of 
emergence of termites for the year. It came from Muskegon with a 
statement that a basement was filled with the wings of termites on 
March 1 and that this is the second season they have made their appear- 
ance, 
Georgia, T, L. Bissell (February 21): Termites have just begun to be 
noticed in dwellings. On February 13 I had a call. from G r iffin, and 
today I received an inquiry fran Columbus. 
Alabama. J. M, Robinson (February 25): Termites continue to worry property 
owners all over the State, They were reported swarming as late as 
November 5 in Mobile County, 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (February 2U): Numerous complaints of injury by R, 
flavipes were received during the winter, 
Louisiana, B, A. Osterberger (February 2h): A few termites have been 
noticed in flight from a steam-heated building in Baton Rouge. 
Oklahoma and Texas. J. A. Beal (January): R. tibialis Bks. has done a 
great deal of damage' during the past summer to nurseries in Oklahoma 
and Texas, This damage was peculiar in that it was not associated 
with buried wood or seedbed frames, but occurred on the roots of 
seedling hardwood trees, in cultivated rows, often where the soil 
appeared to be almost free fran rotting vegetation. Injury has been 
most severe to green ash, mulberry, hackberry, and honey locust 
seedlings, although almost no species showed immunity. In some nurseries 
it is estimated that losses during the growing season ran as high as 
25 percent, 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (F e bruary 17): Termites were found infesting timbers 
in a basement in Salt Lake City, 
