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burned under the infested trees, which causes the caterpillars to become stupe= 
fied and fall to the ground, Great precautions should be taken to prevent forest 
fires. The pupae of the moth vere used as food by the Klamath and Modoc tribes 
of Indians and were considered a delicacy when roasted, It is believed that this 
is the first record of the use of pupae as food by vestern Indians, 
On the Southern Oregon=-Northern California Cooperative Control Project, to 
control an epidemic of the western pine beetle, Dendroctonus brevicomis Lec., 
FP, P. Keen reports that spring work has already started and that five camps are 
now in operation with over 100 men on the pay roll, Other camps will be opened 
as fast as snow conditions and available labor supply will permit. Two hundred 
men are probably at work at the time this is being written, 
Termites are very destructive to the woodwork of buildings and their con- 
tents in the United States, Of the 40 species occurring in this country, species 
of Reticulitermes are the most injurious to buildings, In the Southern and Gif 
States, hovever, species of Kalotermes and Crytotermes are also injurious, and 
in the Southwestern States species of Kalotermes and Amitermes, as well as 
Reticulitermes, are injurious. On the Pacific Coast Reticulitermes and Kalotermes 
damage buildings, During the fiscal year 1922 this branch of the bureau gave ad=— 
vice in 118 cases in which termites had damaged the woodwork of buildings or their 
contents in the United States, and during the present fiscal year 74 ca Ses of such 
damage have already been reported, 
A destructive species of West Indian termite which breeds in dry solid wood 
seriously damaged the woodwork and furniture in a large hotel at Miami, Fla, The 
termites infesting the furniture were killed by placing it in the attic directly 
under the roof, where the sun's rays beat down. The temperature in the attic was 
from 17° to 240 F, higher than the maximum temperature recorded by the U. S. 
Weather Bureau, 

STORED=-PRODUCT INSECT INVESTIGATICNS 
E, A, Back, Entomologist in Charge, 
Doctor Back gave an address on insects attacking upholstered furniture 
before the National Association of Upholstered Furniture Manufacturers, on April 
11, at the Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, N. J. 
TRUCK-CROP INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
FE, He Chittenden, Entomologist in Charge 
; BE, Grayvrood Smyth, investigating the Mexican bean beetle for the bureau, 
‘sailed early in April for Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, from this point he will 

