12—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 22,1967
Chewing Gum Catches More Mice Than Cheese
Save that good cheese for
yourself and put chewing gum
instead in the mouse trap. Gum
makes good mouse-bait, accord
ing to Frank Boys, agricultur
al chemicals specialist at the
University of Delaware. And,
turn the fan on if you’re both
ered by buzzing house flies;
flies can’t fly in winds of more
than four miles per hour.
State Fruit Crop
Hurt This Year
HARRISBURG With the
exception of grapes, Pennsyl
vania fruits will faire poorly
this year, the State Crop Re
porting Service has announced.
This year’s grape crop is
estimated at 41,000 tons, up
four percent from last year and
four percent more than aver
age.
Apple production is expect
ed to total seven million bush
els, seven percent less than last
year and 29 percent below the
1961-1965 average. The peach
crop of 800,000 bushels will be
the smallest since 1936, while
the 400-ton sour cherry crop
will be the smallest on record
The five-year average for sour
cherries was 11,920 tons.
Pennsylvania pears appear
not to be damaged as seriously
as cherries and peaches, but
the 92,000 bushel estimated
production is the lowest since
1956.
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Researchers are currently ex
perimenting with several off
beat ideas in pest control, ac
cording to Boys. Many of these
controls were discovered acci
dentally, he points out. For in
stance, two acrylic auto paints
attract large numbers of a de
structive sap beetle and may
be useful in insect traps.
A large outbreak of sap bee
tles in 1966 led to the acci
dental discovery of the paint’s
potential use. The beetles were
so strongly attracted to auto
mobiles on which rust spots
had recently been painted over
with the acrylic paint that
painting had to be stopped. In
four days of testing an aver
age of more than 2,000 beetles
were drawn to traps contain
ing the two most promising
paints. Early tests show that
other various species of flies
are attracted to the paint, so it
may be useful in trapping oth
er insects also.
At the University of Dela
ware several areas of biologi
cal control are being explored.
Boys says. Releasing predatory
mites that are native to Chile
may show promise in control
ling several species of leaf
feeding mites that attack green
house plants. Usually, within
a week after the release of the
Chilean mites complete con
trol of the destructive mites is
possible.
Entomologists are also work-
Ing with parasitic nematodes
to control the larva of striped
cucumber beetles, an insect of
economic importance on cucum
ber crops. Nematodes are more
widely known as root-infesting
pests of many crops; the para
sitic nematodes are a different
variety.
Beltsville, Md., scientists
found out recently that insects
have their own built-in biologi
cal clock which aids scientists,
farmers and homemakers in
controlling the pests. More
houseflies and cockroaches died
after they were sprayed late in
the afternoon than at any oth
er time, scientists discovered.
The insects’ vulnerability
changes because their daily ac
tivity varies in a 24-hour cycle,
called circadian rhythm. The
flies and roaches start their
most active period in late after
noon, and this is their most
vulnerable period. Spraying at
this time produces a greater
kill with less insecticide.
Boys 'points out that re
Feeders everywhere we talking about
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searchers are continuing to de- at the same time biological
velop new insecticides to deal controls are receiving careful
with insect problems; however, attention.
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