It has been announced by the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, that several species of beetles have been found eating
the spores of the blight fungus, and it is stated that “should these
insects prove as beneficial as the observations indicate, they are
certain to be an important factor in the natural control of the dreaded
chestnut blight disease.” It is worthy of note in this connection that
the insect investigations of this Commission have shown that a number
of insects also carry large quantities of blight spores, and may thus
indirectly assist in the dissemination of the blight. One of these
insects which was found to carry an enormous number of spores is one of
the beetles above mentioned as eating the fungus.