Word: insects
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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April 1: Dr. C. T. Brues: "Fleas and Other Insect Parasites in Their Relation to Public Health...
...well-established fact that diseases have been carried by insects led the State Board of Health, of which Dr. Henry P. Walcott '58, of the Corporation, is chairman and Dr. Mark W. Richardson '89 is secretary, to start a through investigation of the disease along those lines in the summer of 1911. Mr. C. T. Brues, instructor in economic entomology in the Bussey Institute, and Dr. Philip A. E. Sheppard, M.D. '10, took charge of the research. They sought to find insects whose habits fitted in with the occurrence of the disease both as to place and time. After eliminating...
...adult stable fly feeds exclusively on the blood of animals, and less commonly on human beings. They do not enter houses and are inactive in rainy weather. The control of the insect will probably prove very difficult, and its eradication impossible, but methods will surely be developed to reduce the number of its breeding places and to decrease its danger to human beings...
Insecticides fail to reach either the leopard moth or bark-borer. And such a spraying as the trees got when attacked by the elm-leaf beetle may have something to do with the apparent absence of insect enemies of the two above-named species. For the spraying of the trees could have easily killed their parasites, which might have been lurking about on the trees at the time the spray- ing was done. And one thing that favors this theory is,--the leopard moth is worst in that part of the Yard which was the most carefully sprayed...
Full details and description of all the insect pests of the Yard elms will appear in a preliminary paper from Bussey Institution in a short time. It is hoped that enough will be known about them at that time so that an intelligent campaign can be conducted against them, exterminating them entirely, thus saving the trees