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J. W. Ingram, of the sugarcane insects project at New Orleans, La., 
made a two-day trip to look for Aphis maidis Fitch on sugarcane. Small 
numbers were found on sugercane but many were found on sorghum. This 
aphid transmits the mosaic disease of sugarcane. 
W. A. Douglas, who is making investigations of rice insects at the 
New Orleans field laboratory, gave a talk on the rice water weevil ata 
farmers' meeting at Abbeville, La. The farmers are coming to the con- 
clusion that this insect is of but Slight importance. This realization 
will save them money which would otherwise be spent in control measures. 
A report from the European Parasite Laboratory, Hyéres, Var, 
France, states that Exeristes roborator has been found in the Maures 
Mountains near Hyéres in an isolated valley at La Verne at an altitude of 
about 1,970 feet, where it exists as a parasite on an (as yet) unknown 
lepidopterous borer in the stems of Asphodel (A. microcarpus Vir). 
Lee Seaton, of the San Antonio, Tex., field laboratory, spent two 
half days in June searching for larvae and pupae of the sorghum webworm 
in fields where last fall from one hundred to two hundred specimens could 
be taken from a single head of sorghum, and brought back less than twenty 
larvae. 
On June 19, 20, 21, and 22 Mr. Seaton was sent to the heavy sorghum— 
growing section near Taft and Robstown, Tex., to search for specimens of 
the sorghum midge. Owing to scarcity of the insect he did not collect a 
Single specimen. 
An extensive campaign to control grasshoppers on the range lands of 
the great marshes in Lake and Klamath Counties, QOreg., was in progress 
in late May and early June. The funds, reported to be $16,000, were 
provided by the Oregon Legislature, the Indian Service, and other agen- 
Gies. The campaign was directed by the County Agent of Klamath County. 
The Chewaucan Marsh, in Lake County, when seen June 18, appeared to have 
been freed of most of the grasshoppers. Other areas, the Sycan and Upper 
Klamath Marshes, were not seen, but less success was reported. The rainy 
weather interfered with obtaining direct information because of the con- 
dition of the mountain roads. 
Studies on the pollination of red clover were undertaken at the re- 
quest of Eugene A. Hollowell, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, at the 
Forest Grove, Oreg., laboratory. Observation in one 7-acre field, cut 
for hay on June 1 and at time of observation about 5 per cent in bloom, 
showed a record of 33 bumblebees in 30 minutes. Most of the bees were 
Bremus californicus Smith, a few were B. appositus Cress., and a very few 
B. occidentalis Greene, Fields cut at a later date will be chosen for 
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further study. 
An outbreak of the variegated cutworm occurred the first week in 
June, in which alfalfa, sweet clover, and garden crops were much damaged. 
Considerable damage from this species occurred in Dallas County, in the 
Texas panhandle. 
