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tS UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICU TURE Oo 




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SSricultare 
Number 194 Pies 19305 


INSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS 
: F, C. Bishopp, in Charge 
F.C. Bishopp and W. E. Dove spent the latter half of June in 
a general survey of the Southeastern coastal regicn, in search of a site 
for field headquarters for investigations of the sand fly. Varicus 
points were visited between Wilmington, N. C., and Miami, Fla., and 
Charleston, S. C., was finally selected. 
F. J. Krueger has been appointed Field Assistant, to help carry 
on investigations of the sand fly, with temporary headquarters at Savan- 
nah, Ga. 
H. S. Peters left Washington early in June to join a scientific 
expedition to the Florida Keys and the West Indies, headed by Dr. Paul 
Bartsch, of the National Museum. Mr. Peters will pay special attention. 
to the distribution and the breeding conditions of the sand fly, and to 
the collecticn of ticks, Mallophaga, and other ectoparasites of birds and 
animals. The expedition is expected to bo completed early in the fall 
of the present year. 
W. V. King left his regular duties at Mound, La., on June Li for 
Setrip to Portland, Oreg., and stopped en route at Bozeman, Mont., to 
censult entomologists there concerning mosquitoes and ticks. He reached 
Portland about June 18, and spent the remainder of the menth ina general 
survey of an acute problem of infestation by mosquitoes in the vicinity 
Or that city. 
D. C. Parman spent the most of June in a general survey of west-— 
ern Texas and Oklahoma, studying the distribution of the ectoparasites of 
poultry. 
On Jure 12 R. W. Wells, of the field laboratory at Galesburg, 
Ill., visited the Rock River Farms at Byron, Tll, to investigate some 
electrified screens which have been installed there for the control of 
flies. He reports that the matter is worthy of further consideration. 
Dr. D. F. Miller has been appointed temporary Field Agent, ef- 
fective June 11, and assigned to the field laboratory at Beltsville, 
Md., to carry on studies in the rearing of blowflies. 
Richard Wagner has been appointed temporary Field Agent, effec 
tive June 20, to investigate poultry lice, and assigned to the field 
saboratory at Beltsville, Md. 

