Word: weevils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unusual eating habits also keep the termite safe from poisoned bait (used against ants, grasshoppers, etc.), contact poisons (used against orchard pests, etc.), poisoning of breeding grounds (used against mosquitoes), dusting (used against the boll weevil), introduction of natural enemies (used against the Japanese beetle and boll weevil) and other routine methods of fighting insects...
Smartest way for man to fight the insects who rival him for the earth's bounty is to turn insect against insect. The wasp Microbracon mellitor assassinates boll weevils (which last year destroyed 12-14% of the South's cotton), so this week an army of these stiletto-bearing flyers is being propagated at the University of Texas.* The Texas wasp dashes among cotton rows, seeks out bolls full of weevil larvae, plunges her stiletto into each grub, forces an egg through the hollow tube into each paralyzed victim, then flits on to another boll. In two days...
...Frederick W. Malley of Texas discovered that this wasp, a U.S. native, was a weevil parasite. In 1938, the Clayton Foundation, founded by famed Cotton-man Benjamin Clayton, put scientists to work on the wasps' use. Directed by Botanist Glenn W. Goldsmith, young Entomologist John M. Carpenter studied the insect, announced last week that it can be propagated in honey-smeared cages, released in fields to work as effectively as the unpampered outdoor variety. He is now devising equipment for mass production of the billions of wasps which cotton growers need...
...program devoted to boll weevil songs...
Externally he was a Harvard junior. Internally he was a boll-weevil in full operation. It seems that every movement has its Judas...