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FOREST INSECTS 
F. C. Craighead, in Charge 
At the request of the War Department, Dr. T. EB. Snyder left Wash— 
ington on March 29 to inspect, with a representative of the Forest Prod- 
ucts Laboratory, military supplies of wood at arsenals in Rock Island, 
Tll., New Cumberland, Pa., and Springfield, Mass. These inspections are 
made periodically, to prevent serious accumulative damage by powder— 
post beetles. 
Contributions from the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory 
R. C. Brown, of the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory, sailed from New York 
City on March 12 to return to his temporary headquarters in Budapest, 
Hungary. Before reaching Budapest he will visit Sweden in search of 
information regarding parasites of a sawfly, Phyllotoma nemorata Fall., 
which has recently attracted considerable attention as a leaf-—miner of 
birch in Maine, New Hampshire, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. 
R. T. Webber went to Washington on March 17, expecting to spend 
about two weeks there. He will study certain tachinid material at the 
National Museun. 
T. H. Jones went to Washington March 25, to confer with Dr. F., 
C. Craighead on some problems relating to the experimental work con- 
ducted at the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory. 
BEE CULTURE 
Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge 
On the afternoon of March 26 several members of the staff of 
the Bee Culture Laboratory attended a very interesting lecture by Dr. 
Karl von Frisch, of the University of Munich, on the behavior of the 
honeybee. Doctor von Frisch's lecture, given in the auditorium of the 
Engineering Building at Johns Hopkins University, was well illustrated 
with excellent lantern slides and marvelous motion—picture films, showing 
the behavior of the honeybee in its reactions to colors, odors, and 
taste. Even the evidence of "language" in the honeybee was clearly shown 
by the use of films. 
Dr. A. P. Sturtevant and J. E. Eckert, of the Intermountain Bee 
Culture Field Station, Laramie, Wyo., have reported that the annual 
meeting of the Colorado Honey Producers' Association, held in Denver 
on March 4 and 5, which they attended, was one of the best meetings 
ever held by the association. Both Dr. Sturtevant and Mr. Eckert ap-— 
peared on the program and discussed various phases of the experimental 
work now under way at the Laramie Station. * 
