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Robert Bogue got a pencil, computed how much water would be necessary to keep 10,000,000 comatose ladybirds at the proper humidity during shipment from his bug nursery in Glendale, near Los Angeles, to the cooperative group of Virginia growers who wanted them to patrol some 16,000 acres. Packing case after packing case was withdrawn from the 60x40 ft. cold-storage room, the water carefully doused on the moss in the cases and the huge ladybird army started east under refrigeration. Then Robert Bogue sent a bill...
...catch entomologists as well as farmers off guard, but against better known enemies spring surveys are conducted to find out how they survived the winter. Reports this year were far from heartening. Grasshoppers, No. 1 bane of Northwestern grain farmers, got through a mild winter in enormous numbers. Chinch bug mortality in the Midwest was only 3%. In Indiana and Kansas 93% of Hessian flies emerged unscathed from their underground puparia. Millions of Mormon crickets came safely through in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming. Montana. Bitter cold in the East caused high mortality among some destructive insects, but the Japanese beetle...
...Chinch bug...
...TIME, issue of May 7, p. 72, last column-Bug...
...Boudreau of White Plains, N. Y. used to laugh to friends of his 23-year-old wife Catherine, "she thinks she's got a bug in her ear.'' Mr. Boudreau's skepticism seemed justified for, as his wife admitted, nothing had entered her ear since a cricket flew in, and that happened when she was an 8-year-old girl playing on her father's farm in Galway, Ireland. But last week Mr. Boudreau was confounded, Mrs. Boudreau triumphant...