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University Daily Kansas Thursday, March 28, 1963Comedian Suspicious of Hike Fly It or Park
Entomology Group Plans Mite Safari
By Rick Mabbutt
"Bring 'em back alive!" This cry is probably most often associated with the big game safaris that journey to remote corners of the world in search of wild animals.
However, to a group of KU scientists the cry has a different meaning.
THEIR JOURNEY is not into a distant region of the world, but is to our own backyard—the Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas.
They are not hunting for danger-ous, wild animals, but for small "mites." which are cousins of the sniders.
The purpose of this trip, headed by Robert E. Beer, professor of entomology, is to collect thousands of mites and to bring them back alive for classification and study.
PROF. BEER said that the 14- member group will consist of faculty members of the KU department of entomology and students who are working on special research problems with mites.
Also included in the group will be several members of the University of Missouri entomology department.
The group, planning to leave Lawrence on April 6th and return on April 21st, will travel in two trucks. In the spring of 1960 Prof. Beer led the first group to go into the Big Bend country to collect mites.
MITES, of which the most common are chiggers and ticks, had never been collected there before. However, the group returned with hundreds of specimens.
Prof. Beer termed the trip a "fantastic success" since many of the specimens had never been collected or classified before.
All the mites collected on that trip were killed in the field before shipping and the number of specimens gathered was in the hundreds.
"BUT TO accurately observe the behavior of mites, thousands of live specimens are necessary," Prof. Beer said.
"Thus, the main purpose of this year's trip is to bring back a large collection of live mites for laboratory study."
To do this, specially refrigerated ice-cols with humidity controls
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will be needed to pack the mites for shipping.
Prof. Beer said that there is almost nothing known about the behavior of mites, but that there is an increasing awareness of the need for more information about their behavior. This is because mites are now recognized as perhaps worse pests than other insects.
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FOR THIS reason, cultures of the mites will be prepared from the collection which the group hopes to bring back.
These mite-cultures will be observed to determine such things as feeding and reproductivity behavior.
Of special interest to the group are mites which live upon insects as parasites. These "parasitic" mites offer a possible means of insect control since they eventually kill the host insect.
AFTER classification and observation have been completed, the data will be published in scientific journals for use by interested agencies such as the U.S. government.
After spending most of their time in Big Bend National Park the group will follow the Rio Grande to Bronwsville, Tex., where they will visit the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cotton Research laboratories.
The group will then return to KU.
NASA Grants KU Space-research Aid
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has made a training grant of $143,300 to the University of Kansas for support of eight full-time graduate students in space-related sciences and technology for a 3-year period starting next September.
The NASA fellows to be appointed will be candidates for doctorates in any of the space-related basic sciences taught in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
PALM BEACH, Fla. — (UP1) — Comedian Joe E. Lewis visited Joseph P. Kennedy the other day and the President's father laughed heartily at one quip.
"I'm patriotic and I walked 50 miles today," Lewis said. "I'm beginning to wonder if your son has an interest in a shoe company."
Fly It or Park It
WOODBRIDGE, N. J. — (UPI) — Frank Palischak, 25, of Plymouth, Pa., lost a battle with a 45-mile an hour wind last night while driving his tiny foreign car on U.S. 1.
Police said the wind lifted the car off the road and turned it upside down. It skidded 20 yards on its roof, but Palischak received only minor injuries.
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Governor Plans Retaliation
DES MOINES, Iowa — (UPI) — Gov. Harold Hughes expressed regret today to hundreds of former Iowans now living in California that he would be unable to attend their annual picnic in Los Angeles.
"I'm thinking about having a California picnic in Iowa," he quipped. "Things have been going their way long enough."
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