The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10

tention has been drawn to the dspre- aations of this grievous pest the Bu- reau of Entomology of the Agricultural Department has assumed an import ance of consuming Interest to a large part of the South and every market in the world in which the price of cotton is a material factor of commerce But the boil weevfi from Mexico is not the only bug that hurts vegetable and ami mai life most employed for the support and sustenance of man. There are others.
 . some Miscellaneous Results of the Work of the Bureau of Entomology" is the title of the bulletin-No R. which has been published under the supervision of Chief Entomologist L. O. Howard. The late work Is the re- suit of the researches and observations Of corps of sixty entomologists be- self is now in Southern Europe scruti- nizing the habits and habitat of cer- tain moth that immfgrated from that country to New England to do vast deal of harm to the scant vegetation of the land of the Pilgrim Fathers.
 Variety of Insects.
 The devotee of entomology may revel in these pages. They contain the lat GSI n0WS ON stHS utOSt d6RhoSSANS oAN contemplating bugs, from a newly dis covered Mexican cotton pest. which seems to have started out to ally itself with the dreaded boil weevil from the land of the Montezun1as to the ancient bedbug which bit the Montezumas.
 The list of contents shows treat ment in the bulletin of the following subjects: The sugar Cane Beetle. Mexican Cotton Pest, the "Conchela; the Sugar Beet Grown Borer, the Dock False Worm. The Pepper Weevil. weevils in Cowpeas. Grasshoppers. Colorado Potato Beetle in England. Locusts, Kissing Bugs, Beetles, Spid- ders, Bedbugs. etc.
 Professor gftus, of the bureau, re- ports considerable injury to sugar cane last year on several plantations in Louisiana by the sugar cane beetle and the way to combat the pest Is giv- en.
 Prof. A. W. Merrill handles a report of the great injury done cotton crop on a large plantation sn Mextco-one of the largest in the world--tn the state of Durango, covering over 25.o0o acres, by an insect which the spanish speaking people called the "conchueia.' the meaning of which Is little she'll. It has appeared at only one place in Texas attacking cotton and was tried at the experiment station at Victoria, Texas. The Bureau is making a con tinued study of this pest, evidently ap- prehensive of it's appearance in the cotton fields of our state.
 A bug that has a palate for aoth- ing but hot-stuff, az it wcro. Is the pepper weevil which has appeared in Texas. From all that can s'e learned it will feed on no other vegetation.
 Among the curiosities recently dis covered in bugdOm and mentioned in the bulletin is a bug that sereeches or suueals like a mouse. This specimen was reported by Mir. A. c. Wharton, of Port Gibson, Miss. he wrote the Dur- eau of a caterpillar. over two inches long, of pale greenHsn cotor, armed at the posterior extremity with rath- CT stout spine curving backward. On capturing 1t with his fingers he was surprised to hear 1t emit a sound re- sembling the squeaiing of 8 very young mouse. The sound was faint, but very distinct at a distance of two feet It is known to scientific ento- mologists as the Cressonia 3uglandis, and also as the squelling sphinx" cab ton magnified into snake. and show ed that the thing was really not poisonous and that no yell authentt- cated case could be found where per- sons were seriously affected by 1t. Nevertheless the bureau recognized that the cabbage snake scare. largely imaginary as 1t was, caused vast deal of discomfort. not to say pecuniary loss to truck gardeners.
 The present experiment of the bur eau to eliminate the caoDags worm is to graft upon him. 50 to speak. an iTn- ported parasite, his bureau name be- ing "Branconid Apanteles gIomeratus Linn" Worms taken from cabbage in the bureaus experiment garden and !t was demonstrated with tn sm that the parasits would kill tho wUria. The bureau does not tell the truck gar dener where he can get thes9 parasites in any quantity to do good. but per- hal he can Iilld out by writing tv the bureau. gsSStai
 Dr. Morris Gibbs, of Kalamazo, Mich, has found a bug-curlo in the shape of a gh-and-lively Jumper that skips about among oaK trees and. strangely enough. appears tG be kin to the cheese skipper.