New Britain herald., 1929-11-04
JAP PANESE BEETLES
 NEAR WHITE HOUSE
Bugs Even Attack Hedge Around
 Hoover Residence
Washington, Nov 4 LP-The de-


 partment of agriculture in it's war i on .America's greatest peacetime enc mics, food destroying insects, has l scored a signal victory in it's own backyard. the city of Washington. Over 6,oQ0 Japanese beetles. sing ularly rapacious bugs with a highly developed taste for anything that IS green and growing, found their way j into the departments little, green traps in Washington. many of them within the green hedge which sur rounds the White House itself.
 Many Generations Killed
 While the department doesn't feel i that it caught all the beetles in Washington during the past season. the number Of potential descendants of the 5000 would mount into as tronomical figures The severe check to the advance guard Of the insect leads the department officials to be- lieve that eventual victory in the beetle battle is not faint hope.
 The specialists of the government have faced no more worthy foe than the Japanese beetle since birds were killed off in the United States to such an extent that insects became a present instead Of a potential men, acc to all growing things. It's appc- titc isn't finiCky. It will eat most anything from oak tree foliage to strawberry plants and spinach.
 Cousin Tough Customer
 Along with it's cousin once remov- ed, the Asiatic beetle. the Japanese beetle is hard to find until he has caused damage. and even harder 10 kill. One department official humor- ously remarked that the only way to get rid of one of them was to sneak up on him. hit him with a stick and stun him, then choke him 10 death. ''
 While the bug has no sense of NropretN, as evidenced by his effort to get to the shrubs and trees in the White House grounds, he docs have a sense Of smell. and this olfaCtorN. sense, entomologists believe. will lead to his downfall. Department officials have found that certain odorous mix lures will attract him. even into the traps leading to his destruction.
 The Japanese beetle is as widely travelled as the Mediterranean fruit fly. which the department is fighting in Florida. Originating in Japan he entered this country in New Jersey several years ago and since that time has been seeking out new scenery in widely separated parts of the country. having recently been dis. covered almost simultaneously in ! Norfolk. Virginia. and Providence , Rhode Island. The plant control and quarantine administration is now considering the advisa bility of cX. tending a quarantine against the pest to both Rhode Island and tc , the vicinity around Norfolk. Parts I of Virginia adjacent to Washington ; and to Maryland already are under = regulation as well as Delaware
 Pennsylvania, New York. Connecti . cut, and parts of Massa Chusctts. s Battle Fronts Everywhere 7 The lines of the departments bat. l tie against bugs can be found ir l every part Of the country In addi. tion to the fight against the beetles . and the fruit fly. there is constant warfare against the corn borcr in the middle west and the east. the r boil weevil in the south. the pink . holl worm in Arizona. fruit moths on the west coast. and tn" Mexican , fruit fly in the Gulf States.
 l In the fight the department has an ally, a natural enemy of insects l wild bird life Assisted by birds ana . aided by applied chemistry entom.- ologists continue the fight. although, = in some cases have to he satisfied } with mere control instead of extcr- 5 imitation, as in the case of the boil 7 wceyil.