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Proper Name. In Los Angeles, the National Pest Control Association, in annual convention, voted to form a women's auxiliary to be known as the Ladybugs...
...Them Vulnerable. Chief reason for this, the authors say, is that not all insects are vulnerable at the same time. Some are tough adults; some are leading sheltered lives under bark or soil. Moderate doses of DDT have little effect on these. If a forest is sprayed when the pest insect is vulnerable, most of the non-pests come through unscathed...
Sometimes insects are benefited by spraying. A woodland plot in Massachusetts, infested with gypsy moth caterpillars, was sprayed with 1.5 lbs. of DDT per acre. With the caterpillars wiped out, the forest remained green and flourishing, and soon had a normal population of non-pest insects. A nearby plot, left unsprayed, was defoliated by the caterpillars and lost two-thirds of its normal insect population...
...Estin, Hans Howard '49, Forsyth, Robert Bruce '49 (Captain), Graham. William George Brown '51. Gregg, Charles Nelson, Jr. '48. Hansen, Richard Brydon '51. Hudner, Richard Reilly '51, Kegg. William Boyd, Jr. '49, Lange, Robert Brookings '49, Mauran, Duncan Hunter '50, Page, Donald Smith '46 ocC, Plissner, William Alan '51, Pest, Richard St. Francis '51, Soule, Lewis Franklin '49. Warning, Bayard David '51, Watera, William Dennis '49 (Manager...
...Basic Economy Corp., a business with the avowed purpose of raising living standards through the use of American know-how in backward areas. The audience sat fascinated as he told how the corporation saved Brazil $100 million a year by spraying coffee plantations with an insecticide, killing an African pest called broca. With obvious pride in American resourcefulness, he gleefully described how the updraft caused by the helicopter presses the chemical against the underside of the infested leaves,"precisely where it is needed...