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--- ENTOMOLOGY NEWSLETTER .....- Department of Entomology Vo 1. 2, No. 1 University of Minnesota Apri'l 23, 1985 --------------------------~-------------- -----------------------------------------Puerto Rico, Potatoes, and IPM IN THIS ISSUE: -- by V.l Cervenka Article: Puerto Rico Ted Radcliffe, along with his son Opinion: Should ESA move south? David and Cl iff Watrin, recently Linnaean Games retu rned from a 7-month sabb at ica 1 and Book Review: Dear Lord Rothschild eternal spring ;n Puerto Rico. The New Books three were visitors in the Department of Computer Notes CroD Protection, University of Puerto Color Blindness Rico at Mayaguez, but 1 i ved and worked Greetings and Farewells at the experiment SUbstation at Isabela. Seminars Ted taught IPM, and he and Cl iff con Jobs ducted severa 1 resea rc h p roj ects on ----------------------------------------- potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers while ~ newsletter deadline: May 26 David was busy turning out workable ----------------------------------------- computer programs. A Note From the Ed itor Puerto Rico has an interest in This issue marks the beginning of growing potatoes because it is an Yolo 2 of the Entomology Newsletter. important vegetable crop totally Most of the comments I hear about the imported from the United States. To newsletter are positive, but I know he 1 p determine t'he economic feas ib 11 ity there is room for' i-inprovement. of growing potatoes on the is 1 and, Ted Especially now, when I'm spending a lot and Cl iff looked for economic thresholds of time outside the department, I need and did chemical control experiments on to hear from you about what you'd 1 ike the crop. Accord ing to Ted, the 1 atter to see in the News 1 etter. I s there too experiments were instructive in IPM much coverage of some subject areas and terms since workers in Puerto Rico had not enough of others? Are there enough been giving their potatoes weekly sprays timely, interesting articles? Is there of Monitor and Pydrin •. This caused a information in the newsletter that you 1 eaf miner outbreak that wiped out the haven't seen elsewhere? Does the p.otatoes, leading workers to falsely newsletter help keep you in touch with believe the crop could not be grown in what other people in the department are Puerto Rico. In fact, Ted and Cl iff doing? How about a new name for the found they had barely enough insects newsletter? Are the issues too frequent, with wh ic h to get resu 1 ts. Howe ver, too seldom, or too unpredictable? they managed to find enough Puerto Rican I want to emphasize that this is a green peach aphids (GPAs) to bring back department newsletter. Although grad to compare with American GPAs in wild students do most of the work, con potato res i stance stu dies. tributions from faculty and staff are Tomato cultivars developed in Puerto welcome and needed. Alumni contributions Rico were compared with varieties from are also valuable. Please let me know the United States to determine if less your suggestions for the newsletter - insecticide was needed on the adapted· Yolo 2. (Puerto Rican) varieties. These toma toes were also looked at with regard to res i stance to the same 1 ea f miner that killed the aforementioned potato crop. Host plant resistance to GPA in peppers was also examined. Certainly the travelers are glad to return to sensible weather and day-to day routine. Welcome backl ---------------------------------------- --------------------------------------"--- (Ed. Note: The opinion article below is example, papers at the 1984 national in reference to a proposal by Darryl meeting were scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to Hansen in the Jan. ESA News 1 etter that nearly 11:00 p.m.) and "outdoor time" the ESA national meetings be scheduled was very limited. The qua 1 ity of the in conference facll ities in the warmer meeting is determined by the .qual ity of areas of the U.S. Severa 1 1 etters in the program regardless of meteorological response to this, both pro and con, were conditions. printed in the March ESA Newsletter. If This' idea probably seems reasonable you wish to make your'opinion known to to ESA personnel in Washington or the governing board, contact the NCB Maryland or Virginia or to those members representative, J. G. Rodriguez (KY), with scads of travel money. However, I you r sect ion rep resentat i ve (see p. 43 feel that this proposal would be in the Spring 1985 Bulletin), or the detrimental to many northern president, C. A. Triplehorn (OH). entomologists, particularly graduate Addresses for all these are avail ible in students. If you have an opinion one the ESA directory.} way or another on this matter, let an ---------------------------------------- ESA Governing Board representative know. OPINION ----------------------------------------- by Rich Hansen The leadership of the ESA has NCB is coming ••• herel apparently discussed seriously the The 1986 meeting of the North schedu 1 ing of most or all futu re annua 1 Central Branch of the ESA is meeting in meetings in southern ("warmer") Minneapolis, at the Hyatt Regency (down local ities, thereby avoiding the town) on March 24-27, 1986. Phil Harein geographic rotation process now in place and Richard Jones are the co-chairs of and, presumab 1 y, northern ("col der") the 1 oca 1 a r rangemen ts c omm i ttee. cit i es (see Jan '85 .E..SA News 1 ettar>. I Volunteers for this committee are feel that this proposal would be a welcome. They will be starting more mistake from several standpoints. intensive planning after a meeting with A permanent southern bias in annual the program chairs on June 20. Rich meeting sites would place an economic Hansen is working on the program for the burden on northern members. Rotation of Student Affairs formal conference, and meeting locales ensures (more or less) is stU 1 open to good ideas. that national meetings will be at least reasonably close to a given member group lINNAEAN GAMES REPORT every few years. This al lows trans poration costs to be spread out among The Minnesota Linnaean Games All members, an important consideration contingent stumbled into Lexington to ESA members at the low end of the justifiably unheralded, especially since economic totem pole (e.g. graduate nobody knew we were coming. Once the students) or at remote 1oca lit ies (e.g. appropriate authorities were alerted, we Minnesota). Without geographic were awarded a first-round bye and then rotation, the number' of "northern" faced the fearsome Ohio State squad. graduate students attending national The Minnesota battling bugsters stunned meet ings wou 1 d likely decrease over time the crowd by proceeding to stomp, if travel funding remains constant. squash, swat, and zap the Columbus crew, Secondly, the ESA is a national thus achieving the first ever Minnesota organization, not a "southern" or Linnaean Games victory. Jubilation was "sunbelt" group. Maintenance of an short-l ived, however, as our brains went equitable meeting site selection process into diapause and Minnesota was itself. strengthens the nationwide breadth of squished by eventual champion Kentucky the Society. in the semifinals. Team members Dave Finall y, I resent the impl ication "Physiology" Davis, Subi "Subi," Steve that an ESA meeting is "vacation time" "Cargo" Katovich, and Rich "Let Me and should be held where the "weather is Explain" Hansen need no excuses, even nice" (who determines what's nice?). though we got harder quest ions, had to The meetings I've attended kept me busy drive 900 miles, and it was raining. from early morning to late at night (for BOO< REVIEW -- Bi 11 Mill e r army of col lectors worldwide -- as well as his own 1 ife -- Walter never kept Dear Lord Rothschild: Birds, files, letters, or diaries, relying Butterflies, and History. Miriam instead on a faultless photographic Rothschil d. 1983. 398 pp. Ba 1 aban, memory and recall and thereby creating Philadelphia. $29.95, hardbound. monumental difficulties for biographers. Although insects occupy second place . A map of his collection pOints in red in the subtitle, this book is rich in looks like the world with severe chicken entomological connections because it is pox. His Tring curators also achieved so densel y packed w'ith informat ion. distinction; we know of Karl Jordan, There are 35 chapters, 12 color plates, 1 ep idopterist and a founder of the 141 black-and-white photos, maps and International Congresses of Entomology, famil y trees, append ices, notes, and and Ernst Mayr, the evolutionist. bibl iography. Walter early espoused the use of The book is essentially biographical. a110patric subspecies, a cone-ept Mayr Its centerpiece is Walter Rothschild, would later refine and bring into 1868-1931, second baron, a prodigal zoological household use. scion of the Eng1 ish Rothschi1ds, Only a family member could write bankers to the world well into this biographically and insightfu 11 y about century. The book's title refers to the such a complex person as Walter and his Bal four Declaration, which was addressed magn1ficent obsession. Miriam, the to Walter. The Declaration pledged book's author, is Walter's niece. She Bri,tish support for the estab 1ishment of is known for her books and research a national home for the Jewish people, a papers on Siphonaptera, Lepidoptera, and milestone of immense significance for other topics. In this book she attains Israel and the modern world. Walter epic literary stature. This book s~ems to fit all the categories in reminds us that everything is 1 inked to Twelfth Night: "Some are born great, everything else. For Rothschild some achieve greatness, and some have historians, a book from within the greatness thrust upon them." enclave is a mother lode.