Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1942, Page 15

Scientists Breed Bug Expected fo Kill Boll Weevils Microbracon Is Seen as Better Control Method Than Poison Dusting B> the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex. Jan. 9.—Scien- tists are breeding a new kind of vug they expect to exterminate the boll weevil and pink bollworm, de- stroyers of millions of dollars’ worth of growing cotton. The bug warrior is microbracon. It is a parasite which destroys the ‘weevil and worm by boring into their lairs. Dr. G. W. Goldsmith, botany pro- fessor and University of Texas cot- ton research laboratory director, said today he believed discovery of the insect had provided a means of controlling the weevil and worm. And, he said. development and maintenance of the parasite is comparatively cheap and efficient. Breeding experiments show that during the winter it lives and mul- tiplies on s diet of flour moths, which, with the weevil and worm, apparently round out its tastes. This, says Dr. Goldsmith, indi- cates there will be no danger of microbracon becoming a pest itself, as have other artificially introduced insects. He and his assistants hope to breed and, with the aid of Federal and State agencies, unleash micro- bracon in huge numbers on cotton fields throughout the South not later than the spring of 1943. Dr. Goldsmith believes the para- site will prove a better method of control than poison dusting, which, he says, has made thousands of acres relatively infertile and unpro- ductive due to accumulation of poison. While microbracon, developed as a control method in the university's experimental fields, will destroy the | weevil and worm, the scientist cau- | tioned that farmers should not blame every chewed leaf on these two pests. Other insects also are fond of the cotton plant. 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