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Yard Birds. In Medford, Mass., Tufts College Professor Kenneth D. Roeder, studying insect nerve reactions, sadly reported that a detail of cockroaches supplied by the Army were so lazy that they refused to hop even for science...
...material covered will include insect behavior, structure, and ecology. The course is designed primarily for graduate students, but will be open to qualified undergraduates...
Along with its hula dancers and splendid climate, Hawaii has its troubles. One of the worst is bugs. Latest undesirable to make good in the Islands is the Oriental fruit fly, an insect slightly smaller than a house fly and conspicuously marked by yellow stripes round its abdomen. It arrived during wartime, probably hitchhiking by aircraft or ship from Saipan, and spread like winged wildfire throughout the Islands, riddling all sorts of fruit and vegetables...
...worse than the damage the flies have already done in Hawaii is the imminent possibility that they may spread to California, one of the world's best insect cafeterias. To keep them from spreading, the U.S. and the State of California have declared full-scale entomological warfare against the flies...
There is no hope of exterminating them in Hawaii; the flies are too firmly dug in. But the entomologists hope to reduce the fly population and thus reduce likelihood of an invasion of the U.S. mainland. One line of attack is to look for the flies' insect enemies. A Malayan wasp is the best fighter found so far, but it has not yet proved effective in Hawaii...