Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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 Packing case after packing case was withdrawn from the 60x40 ft.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...
...Federal bug-fighters hoped that last month's great dust storm (TIME, May 21) would play havoc with pests as well as with crops. Nevertheless they went out to do battle with sprays, dusting, barriers, poison, traps, burning...
Promisingly vulnerable to parasites is the Japanese beetle, a handsome bronze and bottle-green creature smaller than a June bug. Experimenters have found that maggots of the Prosena fly and Tiphia wasp will destroy the Japanese beetle grub if they have access...