DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
A. L. Quaintance, Associate Chief of Bureau, in Charge 
i ; Dr. F. H. Lathrop, in charge of the Bureau's blueberry maggot inves- 
a who has been in Washington for. several months, has now returned 
Oo his permanent headquarters at Cherryfield, Me. C¢. B. Nickels, associated 
with Dr. Lathrop, has also returned to Cherryfield, after spending several 
months in Washington, 
; ee qT. Snapp, of the peach insect laboratory at Fort Valley, Ga., 
ecently met with fruit growers at Me rshallville, Ga., and discussed the 
oriental peach moth. 
FOREST INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
F. C. Craighead, Senior Entomologist, in Charge 
On March 14 Dr. F. ©. Craighead left Washington for a short trip to 
Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, to review the work in progress there 
on certain problems of the Division concerned with the attack of forest in- 
sects on pines in the Southern States, and to plan the field work in those 
States for the coming year, returning at the end of the month. 
L. G. Baumhofer recently returned to his summer field station at Hal- 
sey, Nebr., to continue his studies on the pine tip moth. 
JAPANESE BEETLE INVESTIGATIONS 
Loren B. Smith, Entomologist, in Charge 
On March 2, E. R. Van Leeuwen addressed the Rotary Club of Rahwa 
N. J,, his subject being “Gontrol measures for the Japanese Beetle." 
WH, C, Hallock, of the laboratory staff, recently spent three days 
at the National Museum studying Muscoid flies with Dr. Aldrich. 
J. L. King recently returned to resume his duties at the laboratory, 
after a leave of absence spent in graduate study at Ohio State University. 
In March a large shipment of 20,000 Tiphia cocoons from Assam, India, 
arrived at the Japanese Beetle Laboratory. 
TR. Gardner will leave Riverton on April 5 for Yokohama, Japan, 
where he will continue his work on parasite investigations with reference to 
the Japanese beetle, 
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