Spring is a time of preparation, planting, and ftrst blooms. The ftrst bloom of our spring season is the Playford Ball, although like the snowdrops coming up at the same time, we often have to push through snow to fmd it. The ball will be held on Saturday, March 7, at Monument Hall in Concord. It turns out that the Weston Town Hall is being used, close to the date of the Ball, by a drama group ...

The impact of snowdrop lectin (Galanthus nivalis agglutinin, GNA) expressed in transgenic sugarcane on life history parameters of Mexican rice borer [Eoreuma loftini (Dyar)] and sugarcane borer [Diatraea saccharalis (F.)] (both Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) was evaluated. In the laboratory, lyophilized sugarcane leaf sheath tissue was incorporated in a meridic diet resulting in a GNA concentration of...