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TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. C. Baker, Entomologist, in Charge 
Dr. A. C. Baker visited the Bureau's laboratories at New Orleans, 
La., and Orlando, Fla., early in May, for the purpose of going over the 
worl under way at these stations, He has now returned to Washington. 

GIPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH INVESTIGATIONS 
A. F. Burgess, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
_A. F. Burgess was in Washington during the week of May 3, conferring 
with officials of the Bureau of Entomology. He also attended a conference 
of the Federal Horticultural Board, to discuss the possibility of releasing . 
from Federel quarantine certain parts of the area’ included in the present - 
gipsy moth and brovm—tail moth quarantine lav. As a result of the conference 
the Federal Horticultural Board will release from quarantine, effective July 
1, 1926, all of the area in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut now in- 
cluded in the barrier zone. This involves all of Berkshire County and the 
town of Monroe in Massachusetts, 5 totms in Connecticut, and 71 towns in 
Vermont. The barrier zone includes a strip of territory in western New Eng-~ 
_land and eastern New York, running from the Canadian border to Long Island 
Sound. The releasing of this anea from quarantine has been made possible 
because of the effective work carried on by the Bureau of Entomology in the 
New England part of the barrier zone, and by the New York. State Conservation 
Commission, in cooperation with the Bureau, in that part of the barrier zone 
within the State of New York, As a result of the work carried on in this 
area, some isolated infestations of the gipsy moth have been located and 
treated, and have been so nearly eradicated that release from quarantine is 
possible. Thorough work will be continued throughout the entire zone, and 
any colonies that may be found will be treated. 
; Observations which have been made during the spring upon the extent 
of growth of the foliage, and notes obtained in regard to the first and gen- 
eral hatching of the gipsy moth larvae, indicate that at the end of May the 
season at Melrose Highlands, Mass., is about two weeks later than in 1925. 
S. M. Dohanian, formerly of the Bureau of Entomology, but who has 
recently becn employed on European work for the American Cyanamid Company of 
New York, returned May 6 to the Bureau work in the Gipsy Moth Laboratory at 
Melrose Highlands, Mass. . 
In April and May the following visitors called at the Gipsy Moth 
Laboratory: Prof. Charles T. Brues, Harvard University; Prof..R. J. Tildyeanes 
Cavthron Institute of Scientific Research, Nelson, New Zealand; Prof. J. A. 
Manter, Connecticut Agricultural College, with four members of the senior 
class who are studying entomology; H. L. McIntyre, of the New York Conserva- 
tion Commission; H. F. Willard, of the Bureau of Entomology; and O. Finnamore, 
of St. John, New Brunswick. 
