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icant species taken in 9 bait pails in 2 vineyards and in 1 fig orchard 
* * * The tabulations were made by H. C. Donohoe: 
species wept; 50 -to Oct. 25 Oct. 28°to Nov... 22 
Lepidoptera: 
Ephestia figulilella Greg............... pe: 2,284 131 
Bemestia Olutolla Hbn.?.........00.......8. 18 10 
Ephestia kuehniella Zell.......0....... 8 1 
Ephestiodes nigrella Hulst......... ite. oT t 
mugen interpunctrlla Hbnvi...40.0.. DR 3 
Meeertoriarinalis Ls? S208 ..ankie.. 112 5 
Hymenoptera; 
(Parasites) 
Microbracon hebetor Say............0.000... 126 116 
Nemeritis canescens Grav... 0... IAT 535 
Mesostenus gracilis Cress..........0..... 1 0 
Ephialtes exareolata Ashm................ 0 4 
1 aS 0) En ee ee ae 10 Lau 
Burning pea fields aids in weevil control.--To determine what advan— 
tage the burning of pea fields has over the practice of turning under pea 
stubble and straw for humus, A. 0. Larson, Corvallis, Oreg., compared the 
increase in weevil infestation in 1932 with that in 1931 in six burned 
and eight unburned fields. He found that "the rate of-infestation aver— 
aged 12.40 times as much in 1932 in unburned fields as in 1931 in the 
same fields, and less than 3 times (2.68) as much in fields: that had been 
burned. The increase in burned fields could be traced directly to the 
spread of weevils from unburned fields." 
Life history of cigarette-beetle parasite.—-A. W. Morrill, jr., Rich- 
mond, Va., obtained records in December "of the parasite Aplastomorpha 
calandrae How. on the larvae of Lasioderma serricorne Fab. The incuba- 
tion period was usually less than 1 day and is combined with the larval 
period in the following summary: Incubation and larval period, 8.1 days; 
prepupal period, 1.2 days; pupal period, 8.5 days; egg—to-—adult period, 
o7-o days." 
Cold weather halts activity of tobacco pests.--W. D. Reed, Richmond, 
“Va., reports that "No activity of the cigarette beetle and the tobacco 
moth (Ephestia elutella Hbn.) was noted in unheated warehouses in Decem— 
ber. On December 9 and 10 visits were made to several warehouses in east-— 
ern North Carolina. No active adult insects were observed and all larvae 
were inactive. The weather in the bright tobacco belt was very cold in 
December. A heavy snow fell in this section on December 16 and 17 and the 
thermometer registered a low of 15° F. in Richmond in the month." 
