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SOUTHERN FIELD-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
J. L. Webb, Associate Entomologist, in Charge 
Perry A. Glick, Junior Pyjant Quarantine Inspector, has been trans- 
ferred from the Federal Horticultural Board to this Bureau, and has been 
assigned to work on the cotton aphis, He will give special attention to 
increase in infestations following applications of calcium arsenate to 
cotton for control of the boll weevil. Mr, Glick will be stationed at 
Tallulah, La., amd will work under the direction of B. R. Coad. 
The first definite record of the sugarcane moth borer in the region 
of Cairo, Gas, has been furnished by Dr.. P. A. Yoder, of the Bureau or Flant 
Industry, who brought a living specimen to this Bureau for identification. 
T. P. Cassidy is now stationed at Tucson, Ariz., where he is investi- 
gating the Arizona weevil, Anthonoms grandis Boh., var..thurberiae Pierce. 
G. Ll, Garrison, of the Washington office, is now at Quincy, Fla., 
where he will remain for the next few months, assisting Mr, Chamberlin in 
tobaccominsect investigations. . 
FRUIT-INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A, L. Quaintance, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
On three occasions in the month of April EF. A. McGregor and A, C. 
Mason, of the citrus thrips investigations, appcared before Farm Bureau 
members and directors of citrus exchanges for the purpose of explaining 
the work that has been done on the project in the past, and of outlining 
plans for future endeavors. One of these meetings was attended by about 
100 interested persons, and the others by about 150. 
Mr. McGregor reports that A. F. Kirkpatrick was appointed Collab- 
Orator in the Bureau of intomology, effective April 10. For some time Mr, 
Kirkpatrick has been conducting inspection studies for the Tulare County 
Horticultural Commission on Citrus=pest control, His voluntary cooperation 
has been of great assistance to the staff of the citrus-thrips project, 
On account of the increase in the curculio population in Georgia 
peach orchards last Summer, when thousands of cars of peaches were left 
in the orchards, and as a result of the low mortality during the very 
mild winter, the curculio infestation ,as reported by 0. I. Snapp, in charge 
of the Bureau's laboratory at Fort Valley, Ga., is now heavier than it has 
been for three years. The program of curculio suppression is being vigor= 
ously enforced, but some trouble from the insects is anticipated this year, 
unless weather conditions during the pupation season in May are especially 
unfavorable for their development, 
