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Nebraska Cattle Grub Survey, Lewis T. Graham, H. Douglas Tate Jan 1943

Nebraska Cattle Grub Survey, Lewis T. Graham, H. Douglas Tate

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

The scarcity of data on the actual extent of cattle grub infestation in Nebraska became evident during the winter of 1942--43 when a control program was being organized. Although there were some cattlemen who were acutely aware of the losses occasioned by this pest, there were many others who had given the problem little thought or who believed that infestation resulted largely from the importation of feeder cattle. More detailed information was obviously desirable in order to present an accurate and convincing account of the problem to the cattle growers.

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The Occurence Of The Potato Tuber Worm In Nebraska, H. Douglas Tate Jan 1943

The Occurence Of The Potato Tuber Worm In Nebraska, H. Douglas Tate

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

A sample of potatoes showing tuber worm injury was submitted to the Entomology Department by a farmer of Elmwood (Cass County), Nebraska in September 1939. A few days later the farm was visited and a bin of about 125 bushels of potatoes was found to be heavily infested with the potato tuber worm. In compliance with instructions, the grower either used or destroyed the entire crop during the early part of the ensuing winter. Potato fields in the same vicinity were examined the following year, but no specimens or evidence of injury by this pest could be found. Apparently, this …

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Cucumber Growing, W. R. Beattie Apr 1942

Cucumber Growing, W. R. Beattie

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CUCUMBERS are included among the 20 important commercial truck crops that are shipped to the markets of the United States in large quantities. The area planted to cucumbers for table purposes in 1940 was 42,870 acres, and the crop produced was valued at $4,993,000, as reported by the Crop Reporting Board, Division of Agricultural Statistics, Agricultural Marketing Service. This acreage is exclusive of approximately 91,000 acres of cucumbers grown for pickles and also of the crop produced in greenhouses. This bulletin deals only with the production of table or slicing cucumbers as a field crop and those grown in coldframes, …

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Tillage Methods In Grasshopper Control, Gerald B. Spawn Feb 1942

Tillage Methods In Grasshopper Control, Gerald B. Spawn

Agricultural Experiment Station Entomology Pamphlets (1940-1952)

No abstract provided.

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Notes On Some Feeding And Hibernation Habits Of California Polistes (Hymenoptera, Vespidae), George E. Bohart Jan 1942

Notes On Some Feeding And Hibernation Habits Of California Polistes (Hymenoptera, Vespidae), George E. Bohart

All PIRU Publications

No abstract provided.

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A Synopsis Of The Genus Micralictoides (Hymenoptera, Apoidea), George E. Bohart Jan 1942

A Synopsis Of The Genus Micralictoides (Hymenoptera, Apoidea), George E. Bohart

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No abstract provided.

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Active Projects In The United States And Canada Dealing With Grasshopper Research, H.C. Severin Jan 1942

Active Projects In The United States And Canada Dealing With Grasshopper Research, H.C. Severin

Agricultural Experiment Station Entomology Pamphlets (1940-1952)

The sixteenth annual meetings of the Rocky Mountain Conference of Entomologists were held at Cameron Pass, Colorado, August 17 to August 21, 1941. Some time was devoted during these meetings to a discussion of the research work that is being done at the present with grasshoppers. It was felt by those participating in the discussions that it would be highly desirable if certain data were available concerning grasshopper research projects that are being actively investigated at the present time in the United States and in Canada. The author if this paper was asked to assume the responsibility of formulating an …

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Life History And Habits Of The Potato Flea Beetle In Western Nebraska, Roscoe E. Hill, H. Douglas Tate Jan 1942

Life History And Habits Of The Potato Flea Beetle In Western Nebraska, Roscoe E. Hill, H. Douglas Tate

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

In the potato-growing section of the North Platte Valley of western Nebraska, the difficulty of producing high quality potatoes frequently is greatly increased by the presence of destructive populations of the potato flea beetle Epitrix cucumeris Harris. Csually foliage injury by the adults is comparatively unimportant, but larval injury to tubers often greatly reduces the quality of the crop. Since prevention of tuber injury by the larvae has extended downward from the sides of the cages. Unless food was available in the form of plant growth within the cages, either green potato foliage or cut tubers were supplied as long …

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Tillage Methods In Grasshopper Control, Gerald B. Spawn Dec 1941

Tillage Methods In Grasshopper Control, Gerald B. Spawn

Agricultural Experiment Station Entomology Pamphlets (1940-1952)

In the light of the present world food situation, the control of insects assumes a role of major importance in the agricultural program. Various insects, among which grasshoppers are one of the most notorious, attack our growing groups, upon which we depend for food. Others attack grains in storage; plant and animal products of many kinds; clothing and articles of furniture; and our domestic livestock. Man himself is not immune from attack as is borne out of by the epidemics of louse transmitted typhus which are today growing in extent in certain parts of Europe. The losses sustained by mankind …

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The Relation Of Temperature To The Embryonic And Nymphal Development Of The Differential Grasshopper Melanoplus Differentialis Thomas, Myron H. Swenk, Charles H. Bratt Nov 1941

The Relation Of Temperature To The Embryonic And Nymphal Development Of The Differential Grasshopper Melanoplus Differentialis Thomas, Myron H. Swenk, Charles H. Bratt

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

Temperature plays the major role in the regulation of the rate of embryonic development of the differential grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis Thomas).

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Nutrition Of The Wax Moth Larvae. Vitamin Requirement. I. Requirement For Vitamin B, Mykola H. Haydak Apr 1941

Nutrition Of The Wax Moth Larvae. Vitamin Requirement. I. Requirement For Vitamin B, Mykola H. Haydak

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Notes On Minnesota Ticks, William A. Riley Apr 1941

Notes On Minnesota Ticks, William A. Riley

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Control Of The Chinch Bug In Nebraska, M. H. Swenk, H. D. Tate Apr 1941

Control Of The Chinch Bug In Nebraska, M. H. Swenk, H. D. Tate

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

The chinch bug, Blissus leucopterus (Say), is one of the most injurious insect pests of cereal crops in the United States. Although some damage by it has occurred over a wide area in the United States, the greatest injury has been in the Corn Belt. The years in which the chinch bug appears in destructive abundance come irregularly in cycles of varying duration, and the length of these cycles is largely controlled by the direct or indirect effects of weather upon the bugs. Continued dry weather favors them, while very wet weather brings about their destruction. During the last seven …

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New Species Of Ground Beetle Of The Genus Rhadine From An Arkansas Cave (Coleoptera: Carabidae), Milton W. Sanderson, Albert Miller Jan 1941

New Species Of Ground Beetle Of The Genus Rhadine From An Arkansas Cave (Coleoptera: Carabidae), Milton W. Sanderson, Albert Miller

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Rhadine ozarkensis is described as a new species of ground beetle from Fincher's Cave, Washington County, Arkansas. Two males and three females were collected in the twilight and total darkness zones between November 4, 1939 and January 20, 1940, form three liver baited traps set in the cave floor. This species is related to R. caudata (Lec.)

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A Review Of The Genus Physocephala Of The Western United States (Diptera, Conopidae), George E. Bohart Jan 1941

A Review Of The Genus Physocephala Of The Western United States (Diptera, Conopidae), George E. Bohart

All PIRU Publications

No abstract provided.

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The Oviposition Of Conopid Flies Upon Smaller Andrenid Bees, George E. Bohart Jan 1941

The Oviposition Of Conopid Flies Upon Smaller Andrenid Bees, George E. Bohart

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No abstract provided.

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A New Fossil Bovid From Nebraska With Notice Of A New Bison Quarry In Texas, C. Bertrand Schultz Jan 1941

A New Fossil Bovid From Nebraska With Notice Of A New Bison Quarry In Texas, C. Bertrand Schultz

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

An interesting and unique bovid skull was reported to the staff of the University of Nebraska State Museum in 1938 by Mr. Alvin McReynolds of Nehawka, Nebraska. The specimen was found in 1933 in a ravine north of Nehawka by Messrs. Merritt and Harold Dodson, brothers. Although the skull was not in place, it appears to have been washed out of a nearby Pleistocene clay deposit by floodwaters. The specimen is well preserved and is of a dark brown, almost black color. In 1938 it was loaned to the Museum for study and photographing but was not obtained as a …

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The Ancestral Ursid, Hemicyon, In Nebraska, Edwin H. Colbert Jan 1941

The Ancestral Ursid, Hemicyon, In Nebraska, Edwin H. Colbert

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

During the summer of 1928, a University of Nebraska State Museum field party, composed of Dr. A. L. Lugn and the writer, made a collection of upper Miocene and lower Pliocene mammals in Brown and Cherry counties, Nebraska. This collection was sponsored and made possible by the generosity of the late Hon. Charles H. Morrill.

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A Shovel-Tusked Mastodon, Arnebelodon Fricki, From Kansas, Erwin Hinckley Barbour, Claude W. Hibbard Jan 1941

A Shovel-Tusked Mastodon, Arnebelodon Fricki, From Kansas, Erwin Hinckley Barbour, Claude W. Hibbard

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

Since the Amebelodontinae were first announced (Barbour 1927), a number of examples of the genus Amebelodon have presented themselves in various parts of Nebraska, Colorado, and in several places in Kansas. Thus its range has already been materially extended, many skeletal parts added, and the hope kindled that knowledge of this remarkable group of proboscideans is destined to be greatly enriched within the next few years. As may be seen in the accompanying lists of the known parts of Amebelodon preserved in various museums, there are already at hand the bones necessary for the assemblage of a nearly complete composite …

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A New Species Of Sphenophalos From The Upper Ogallala Of Nebraska, Erwin Hinckley Barbour, C. Bertrand Schultz Jan 1941

A New Species Of Sphenophalos From The Upper Ogallala Of Nebraska, Erwin Hinckley Barbour, C. Bertrand Schultz

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

The genus Sphenophalos was described by John C. Merriam (1909, p. 319-30), who based his description on a fragmentary horn-core (Uni. of Calif. No. 11887) from the late Tertiary deposits near Thousand Creek in northern Humbolt county, Nevada. Knowledge of Sphenophalos, however, is still confined to this single, fragmented type horn-core (Frick 1937, p. 472) and other fragmental specimens (Furlong 1932, p. 27-36).

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The Pipy Concretions Of The Arikaree, C. Bertrand Schultz Jan 1941

The Pipy Concretions Of The Arikaree, C. Bertrand Schultz

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

The pipy concretions of the Arikaree (lower Miocene) of Nebraska and adjacent states were first described by Nelson Horatio Darton (1899, p. 743) as "characteristic layers of hard, fine-grained, dark-gray concretions, often consisting of aggregations of long, irregular, cylindrical masses" (see Figures 30, 32, 34, and 35). The individual pipes vary in diameter from a few inches to several feet, and in length from a few inches to a hundred yards or more. Tests demonstrate that pipy concretions are composed of sand cemented by calcium carbonate. When dipped in acid the cement is dissolved and the concretion is reduced to …

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Some Notes On The Development And Regulation Of Heat Among Galleria Larvae, T. L. Smith Jan 1941

Some Notes On The Development And Regulation Of Heat Among Galleria Larvae, T. L. Smith

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Tillage Methods In Grasshopper Control, Gerald B. Spawn Nov 1940

Tillage Methods In Grasshopper Control, Gerald B. Spawn

Agricultural Experiment Station Entomology Pamphlets (1940-1952)

During the past 88 years of agricultural history in South Dakota, 38 have been years in which grasshoppers were present in above normal numbers. During 17 of these 38 years grasshoppers have been a serious pest of agricultural crops in South Dakota and neighboring states. Many millions of dollars worth of cereal, forage and truck crops during each of these 17 years were destroyed by hungry hordes of the insects. The impetus given soil conservation work and farm woodlot and shelterbelt plantings of trees in the past few years has brought about the realization that grasshoppers are far more than …

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Control Of Stored Grain Pests In Nebraska, M. H. Swenk, D. B. Whelan Apr 1940

Control Of Stored Grain Pests In Nebraska, M. H. Swenk, D. B. Whelan

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

At the close of 1939 about twice the amount of wheat was in storage in Nebraska as compared to the close of 1938. Frequently a new crop of grain goes into storage before the preceding older grain leaves the farm, and, due to inadequate storage space, the crops are not kept separated, thus promoting an early infestation of the new grain from the older grain that has become infested. Under such conditions the damage by stored grain pests becomes a matter of unusual importance.

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Spraying Tree Fruits, C. C. Wiggans, E. H. Hoppert Mar 1940

Spraying Tree Fruits, C. C. Wiggans, E. H. Hoppert

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

The production of sound, clean fruit is unquestionably one of the major problems facing the modern fruit grower. Culture may be neglected and pruning delayed for a time but the omission of sprays for even a single season demonstrates their absolute necessity. This applies equally to the commercial grower and to the farmer or gardener who has only a few trees.

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A Record Of Physocephala Affinis Williston As A Parasite Of Adult Bembix Comata Parker, George E. Bohart, John W. Macswain Jan 1940

A Record Of Physocephala Affinis Williston As A Parasite Of Adult Bembix Comata Parker, George E. Bohart, John W. Macswain

All PIRU Publications

No abstract provided.

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The Importance Of Local Mosquito Surveys In Minnesota, William A. Riley Apr 1939

The Importance Of Local Mosquito Surveys In Minnesota, William A. Riley

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

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Fifty Years Of Achievement In Agricultural Investigation, R. T. Prescott Mar 1939

Fifty Years Of Achievement In Agricultural Investigation, R. T. Prescott

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

In Nebraska, a hustling frontier state in 1887, the legislature hesitated not at all in taking advantage of the provisions of the Hatch Act, and now that fifty years have elapsed since the Station was founded, seventy-five years since the Land Grant College Act was passed and the U. S. Department of Agriculture established, and almost twenty-five years since the Agricultural Extension Service was added, it seems worth while to present a general summary of achievement within the state. The main object will be to show some of the important things that have been learned through the investigations of the …

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The Life History Of The Sand Wasp, Bembix Occidentalis Beutenmuelleri Fox, And Its Parasites, George E. Bohart, John W. Macswain Jan 1939

The Life History Of The Sand Wasp, Bembix Occidentalis Beutenmuelleri Fox, And Its Parasites, George E. Bohart, John W. Macswain

All PIRU Publications

No abstract provided.

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A New Giant Camel Gigantocamelus Fricki, Gen. Et Sp. Nov., Erwin Hinckley Barbour, C. Bertrand Schultz Jan 1939

A New Giant Camel Gigantocamelus Fricki, Gen. Et Sp. Nov., Erwin Hinckley Barbour, C. Bertrand Schultz

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

A lower Pleistocene deposit containing fossil vertebrates near Broadwater, Morrill county, Nebraska, has been reported upon by the writers, beginning three years ago. Five fossil quarries have been opened since the site was discovered in 1936.

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