Word: insectes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the appearance of the boll weevil, the American cotton crop had reached 16,000,000 bales in one season. The demand for cotton has been good for the past two years, but so serious have been the inroads upon the cotton plant by the insect pest, that including the present year, there have been short crops for three years running. Slack demand and low prices can account in part for the small 8,000,000-bale crop of 1921; and to a much lesser extent for the 9,000,000-bale crop of 1922. During the past year, however...
...appearance in English of The Life of the Scorpion,* the capstone in the great ten-volume series of Souvenirs Entomologiques, together with the centenary of his birth (1823) brings to mind again the life labor of Jean Henri Fabre, " the insects' Homer," whom Darwin called "a savant who thinks like a philosopher and writes like a poet." Fabre died in 1915 at the age of 92, but posthumous works are still coming out, enhancing the fame and affection which the world began to accord him only toward the end of his hardship-ridden life. The Life of the Scorpion...
...unknown. They are normally only a parasite of man and the bedbug. While this fact would seem suspicious, various thorough investigations have not been able to prove that the bedbug is the transmitting agent. It is believed by many that some species of biting and bloodsucking insect is guilty, and further work on the suspects is projected. But it is not inevitable that insects transmit it direct; possibly contaminated food is to blame...
Skirmishes in the anti-insect campaign...
...unclassified insect appeared in Rapides Parish, La., and is damaging cotton on numerous plantations. It is neither a boll weevil nor an army worm, and the state entomologist, Prof. T. H. Jones, is investigating...