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W. J. Nolan attended a "Farmers' Week" program at Blacksburg, 
Va., July 30, to address the orchardists there on pollinating insects. 
Virginia fruit growers have voiced their apprehension concerning the 
destruction of natural pollinating insects, such, for instance, as bum— 
ble-bees, caused by numerous forest and brush fires, and the exceedingly 
dry weather, and are somewhat concerned about the question of pollina- 
tion for the coming spring. 
DECIDUOUS—FRUIT INSECTS 
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge 
The field laboratory for the investigation of pecan insects at 
Albany, Ga., formerly located at 515 Flint Street, has been moved to 
1505 Jefferson Street. The entomological laboratory is situated in 
one section of a new two-story brick building recently constructed by 
the Chamber of Commerce for all pecan investigations. The building 
is being occupied not only by the Bureau of Entomology, but also by 
the divisions of Horticulture and Plant Pathology of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, and the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. 
Archie Rolfs, a recent graduate of Iowa Agricultural College, 
has been appointed Junior Entomologist, and reported June 5 for duty 
at the field laboratory at Yakima, Wash. 
Breer pilvestri, of Portici, Italy, visited the field» labors 
tory at Yakima July 3 to 5. On July 4 he was taken on a collecting trip 
in the mountains west of Yakima. 
E. J. Newcomer attended the meetings of the Pacific Slope Branch 
of the American Association of Economic Entomologists at Eugene, Oreg., 
June 19 and 20. 

CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS 
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge 
H. A. Jaynes, now in Peru, has forwarded from that country more 
than 100,000 parasites of the sugarcane moth borer to the field labora- 
tory at New Orleans, They are mostly of the dipterous species Parathe— 
resia claripalpis. The parasites are received at New York by H. C. Hal- 
lock, of the Division of Deciduous~Fruit Insects, who transfers them from 
the cold rooms of ships to special refrigerator boxes, in which they are 
sent by express to New Orleans. Valued cooperation is also given by W. 
H. Freeman, of the New York field headquarters of the Plant Quarantine 
and Control Administration. 
