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Item East Africa and the Tsetse Fly(1937) Kirkpatrick, T.W.; East African Agricultural Research StationTropical Africa covers an area of some four and a half million square miles. Nearly two thirds of this is infested by one or more of the twenty one species of the genus Glossina-dull, insignificant looking flies known as tsetses. Perhaps the word is a corruption of the Swahili inzi.Item Helopeltis (Hem., Capsidae) on Cinchona(1941) Kirkpatrick, T.W.; East African Agricultural Research StationThe observations here recorded have been made between April and October 1940, at Amani, Tanganyika Territory.Item Notes on Insect Damage to East African Timbers(1944) Kirkpatrick, T.W.; East African Agricultural Research InstituteThe Entomologist of the East African Agricultural Research Institute recently carried out a rapid survey of the timber yards at Dar-es-Salaam, Tangu and Mombasa, and a few sawmills in Kenya and Uganda; in this pamphlet he gives some information on East Africa timber pests and their habits, for the assistance of timber inspectors and managers of sawmills and timber depots. The principal types of damage are described and some account is then given of the beetles chiefly responsible, i.e. flat-headed borers (Buprestidae), round-headed borers (Cerambycidae), Ambrosia beetles (Scolytidae), powder-post beetles (Bostrichidae, Lyctidae and Anobidae). Other pests described are termites, carpenter bees, carpenter moths, bark beetles, shipworms. Measures for preventing or limiting data by timber beetles are described and there are keys for determination of the types of insect damage to timber and of the common insect pests of timber in East Africa.Item The Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society, of London(1947) Kirkpatrick, T.W.; AMANI; Royal Entomological SocietySince it is believed that this is the second record of Epipyropidae from Africa, the following biological notes, though very incomplete, should be of interest. I have found the Epipyropid, which Mr. W. H. T. Tams of the British Museum (Natural History) has described as Fulgoraecia cerolestes sp. parasitizing two species of Metaphaena-M. cruentata Gerstaecker which occurs on the introduced tree Grevillea robusta, and M. militaris Gerstaecker which I have only seen on a species of Entandophragma, a tree indigenous but uncommon in the Amani forest. Most of these observations refer to parasites on Metaphaena cruentata.Item Some Aspects of Insect Parasites And Predators(1946) Kirkpatrick, T.W.; East African Agricultural Research InstituteThis article is intended to be interesting rather than of practical utility. Every farmer knows of the enormous value of entomophagous (i.e., feeding on insects) insects and that, without them, the plant-feeding insects would increase so rapidly that within a very few years nearly all crops and indeed most other vegetation would disappear from the surface of this planet. But probably few realize the diversity of the methods of attack that have been evolved by insects against other species of their order. For it may be remarked in passing that insects, in common with all other animals except Homo sapiens, never wage war against their own species. They may occasionally turn cannibals under the stress of famine, and sometimes they kill each other under the dictates of sex, but it is only the Lord of Creation who indulges in organized destruction of his own kind.Item Studies on The Ecology of Coffee Plantations in East Africa. II..(1937) Kirkpatrick, T.W.; East African Agricultural Research StationSince the research of Nassonov (1892-93) very little has been added to our knowledge of the biology of Strepsiptera. Moreover, Nassonov's work dealt with species parasitizing Hymenoptera and, on account of the habits of their hosts, exact studies on such species are naturally attended with the greatest difficulty.
