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n Jose scale have been collected from peach trees near Fort Valley, Ga., 
sh month during the past vinter. This shows that during some seasons 
| the latitude of middle Georgia some of the scale insects may pass the 
inter in the full-grown stage 
. H, S. Adair, a graduate of the Mississippi A. & M, College, has 
een appointed field assistant and reported for duty at the Fort Valley, 
Ges Laboratory on March 1, to assist with the plum curculio studies that 
re being conducted there, 
A. J, Ackerman, in charge of apple insect investigations at 
entonville, Ark,, and Prof, Geo, A. Dean, of the Kansas Agricultural 
jollege, met with fruit grovers of the Arkansas Valley at Wichita, Kans., 
ecenily pF Seige methods of aiding growers in the Wichita section in 
ineéir fight against the codling moth during the coming season, Plans 
ere mode for cooperative work in the orchards at Wichita and at Belle 
lain, Kans. 
Fred &. Brooks, in charge of the French Creek, ij. Va., station, 
ummmnicates the interesting observation that beetles of the lesser 
hestnut weevil, selaninus algonquinus, are perpetually present on the 
ee during the growing season, the adults of one generation maturing 
1 the ground before those of the preceding generation have ceased ovipo- 
ition on the trees, The life history of the larger chestnut veevil, 
vlaninus proboscideus Fab., is entirely different, the beetles being 
resent only for about tvo or three months in late summer and autumn, 
‘ For several years workers in this branch have been accumLa ting 
ta on Conotrachelus anaglyoticus Say, as found associated with ¢. 
Bnuphbar Hbst., on plum and peach trees, At the French Creek field 
tation the species has been studied as a borer ~ ring its larval stage 
(the cambium of fruit and other kinds of trees, All the data are now 
sing assembled in a manuscript to be submitted for publication this 
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ring. 
Dr. B. R. Porter attended the regional conference of entomologists 
Urbana, I1l.,on March 2, in connection with cooperative fruit—insect 
restigations under way in Indiana, and in that general region, 

GIPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH INVESTIGATIONS 
A. F. Burgess, Entomologist in Charge 
He L. McIntyre, who has been associated with the gipsy moth and 
m=—tail moth investigations in the Bureau of Entomology for more than 
en years, has accepted a position with the State of Nev York Conser— 
ion Commission. Mr. McIntyre will take charge of the work against the 
sy moth in that State, an appropriation of $150,000 having been made 
he Legislature for that purpose recently. : 

