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...Indians was the constant pounding of Communist propaganda, most of it directed against the U.S. "Hate-America" campaigns have assumed ludicrous proportions: Peking's newspapers devote a quarter of their space to the charge that the U.S. is using germ warfare tactics in Korea. Communist exhibits of "U.S. insect bombs" are so cunningly devised, said the Indians, that "one has to think twice" before grasping their phoniness. "I wouldn't say any of us were convinced," said University Delegate N.S. Bendre. "[But] the Chinese who see the exhibits don't think twice...
...muscle tissue worked on by the research pair came from the thorax of the common fruit fly, the insect used most frequently by experimenters in the field of genetics...
...Ridge National Laboratory last week, Entomologist R. C. Bushland of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was planning a dirty trick on an unpleasant insect: the screwworm fly of Texas and Florida. The female flies lay their eggs in open wounds (even scratches or tick bites) in the hides of cattle. From each clutch hatch about 200 maggots, which eat a hole in a cow as big as a lemon. Often other flies attack the same wound. Unless an outside agency (i.e., a cowpoke with anti-fly dressings) comes to the cow's rescue, she may be eaten alive...
...mosquitoes did. Cold rains followed by 90° heat brought them out in swarms. Presidential Assistant John Steelman tried to play golf, quit on the first hole, came back slapping at his legs, arms and neck. There was a run on the dispensary's supply of insect repellent. Then the word went out from the Little White House, and Navy fighters whipped low over the area to spray DDT from their belly tanks. Truman, who has often commented that he is thick-skinned, said the mosquitoes weren't bothering him at all. Despite all the excitement, there were...
Lydella does no harm to crops and attacks no insect except the corn borer. The females tenderly place their infant maggots at the entrances of the corn borers' tunnels. Then the maggots, guided by the peculiar genius of their kind, crawl into the tunnels, find the borers and destroy them by devouring their innards...