THE INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN

A periodical review of entomological conditions throughout the United States issued on the first of each month from March to December, inclusive.

Volume 7 November 1, 1927 Number 9

BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

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THE STATE ENTOMOLOGICAL AGENCIES COOPERATING

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O0*STAi±TJC- EHP0J3DLCGICAI. ?E: .TUBES IM T£5 riED Sl££FES FCS OCTOBER , 1927

A flight of the locser a&gratory grasshopper is reported from western Kansas and severe damage has already been dona to fall-sown -heat in certain localities. .

The fall crmy-orm is doiiig consider able dar.iagc in central Illinois, eastern Ivebrasica, "'.nd Kansas.

The summer Hessian-fly survey of the Middle Atlantic States shows higher infestation than has prevailed for. several years. A general summary of the survey appears in this number. Tiles are also reported as abundant in south -central Kansas.

Several ne-" counties in: Pennsylvania-, Ohio, Indiana, and Lachigan have "been found infested "by the European corn 'borer in the course of the October scouting work.

The San Jose scale is not reported as unusually abundant from any part of the eastern fruit belt, though indications earlier in the season were that unusual infestations were to be expected.

In general , the codling-moth situation of the Eastern United States has been favorable; considerable wormy fruit, however, is being found in eastern e::port apples.

The apple and thorn skeietor.iser is reported for the first time from the St at e of 1 la ine .

In the apple -growing section of West Virginia a very unusual outbreak of the apple maggot occurred this year.

In the Georgia peach belt, the peach borer is so serious that an un- usually large Quantity of paradiehlorobenzene is being used this year.

The Mexican bean beetle has been found ore county eart of our last re- cord in Hew "fori: State (Steuben County), 4 single beetle hoc been found north of Washington, 3., in Montgomery County, Maryland, an infestation in the eastern part of Forth Carolina is decidedly more intense than last year. In South Caroline the recorded spread is practically one tier of counties farther east than according to our last report , .-"tending eastward to a line between

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Dillon and BarnwelZ. In Tlichiran the recorded infestation is tiro counties farther north than previously recorded, extending into Wayne , Oakland, and HcCorab Counties in the southeastern part of the State.

The carrot v;eevil is doing considerable damage in southern Illinois.

As anticipated in our sunnier numbers of t he bulletin, the cotton leaf v/orm did practically no damage in tho northern fruit belt this year.

Throu^ouVl pine stands of northern Idaho, present indications are that another epidemic of the mountain pine beetle is under nay, A similar epidemic has been under way for the past fev years in the Bitter F.oot region of Montana,

The heaviest losses in the past 10 years from the ravages of the Jeffrey pine beetle in the area included in the California-Oregon control project are now occurring. The older epidemic in the Iryo National forest is no '.7 on the decline.

Several reports of damage to garden plants by the fire ant have been received from Ifi. ssi ssiaoi .

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T7HITE UBDBS ( Phyllopha~a spp. )

Sf. P. Flint (October 17): .Severe injury "by various species of white grubs to corn has been reported from many points in cen- tral and northern Illinois.

J. W. Uc Col loch (October 1): The county agent of Cheyenne County, reports that white grubs have destroyed a field of wheat. Counts shored that there were seven grubs to the square foot .

STALK BCE3R3 (Pyraustn spo . )

3. L. Chambers (September 15-Cctober lj: Lotus borer? and smart- weed borers, P.vrausta spp. , are very abundant in several locali- ties in limited smar tweed patches and lotus beds.

CHAIS-SPCTISP SBOlSSmiH (Cingilia catenaria Drttry)

C. .P.. Phipps (October 6): The chain-spotted geometer appeared in destructive numbers about August IS, defoliating blueberry, sweet fern, gray birch, and many other pleats.

1. L. Chambers (September 15-Cctober l): Thousands of moths were observed about the lights at Black Hiver Palls on September 17- 'The surrounding bog land was stripped by larvae.

I&5SB3 mC2Lfl3! QEY GEASSH0PP3E (h.elanordus atlanis Riley)

•J. 77. Mc Col loch (October 20) : The lessor migratory grasshopper has caused some damage to f -..11 -sown wheat in western Zansas. Plights have been reported from Great Bend and Bighton. (September J>0) : These grasshoppers are reported to be present by the hundreds of thousands in the fluids of Palco. On Septem- ber 29 a big flight of grasshoppers passed over Croat Bemd.

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?ALL rtP.LT.TCP.:: (Lasiohygma fjrogjjrerda S. & a.)

I". H. Sflenk (September 25-October 23): Pairing the first week in August an instance of the fall armyworm caterpillars attacking the ears of corn, and burro:7ing in the cob of the attached ears, •"as found in Cass County.

77. P. Plint (October 17): Pall array.vorm larvae have been reoorted from several points in Gentral Illinois, injuring corn and alfalfa

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Kansas

J. W. McColloch (October 8): Corn plants sent in from Liberal ware badly inured by the fail armyworm. The leaves had been destroyed and the -.-/onus were working in the ears and stalks.

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RUSSIAN FLY (Phytcohaga destructor Say)

0. C. Hill and H. D. Smith (October 3): Hessian-fly surve-s made this summer show more fly infestation in the eastern wheat-growing area than there has been for some years past. Records of percent- age of infestation were based on culms. The follc-ing summary shows the average infestation per county cf the States under surve-

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State	: Bomber cf	' Infestation	: number of	: Infestation
	counties	: per county,	: counties	: per county,*
		: per cent .		' :per cent .
Penna ....	: 21	: 33	: 21	: 1
Del :			1 :
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	11 :	: 2o :	■	1
W.Va :	2 •	51 :	o :	0

J. ST. HcColloch (October 20) { A survey made during early October shows the fly abundant in the south -central pari of the State, also one infestation in 'Thomas County.

FLAIL'S FALSE '.7IEL70R;: (51 codes opaca Say)

J. 7T. HcColloch (September 25): TJlieat is being destroyed before germination at Piercoville and Garden City.

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SUROHSAN CORN BORER (Pyrausta nubilr.lis Hubn. )

General Monthly Letter, Bureau of Entomology, Nb. l6l, (September, 1927):

stav^men't ^ summer shipment of 30*200 Fyr au s t a r.ub i 1 a 1 i s chry sal ids, parasi-

tised by ?r. eogenjF alanif rens T;esm. and 7.5^0 cocoons of Dioctes wanctoria Roman vf.s made on Aagust 9 from Genoa, Italy, by the European parasite laboratory at Hyercs, Tar. France. These para- sites were collected by Lr. H. L. Parker at Bergamo, in Lombardy, lotal shipments of Pyrausta parasites from Europe to this country for the; last fiscal year wire Zulimn ria crassifomar Thorn. , ^4-7 , "$Uc : Zioctes -pv.nctoric. , .U,.?.09; ha si cere, senilis Rond. , 1,652; Hi c: Ifigagt or tibialis ":7ces, "_co,722; and Phaeogenes planixrons .

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17,017- -at the Arlington, Mass., laboratory there r.rere reared ^2.70U Zenillia rcseanae 3.- it B.; 11,-^7 Macrocentrus abdominal is Fab.j ^7 Dioctes punctoria: 33,175 Aoant eles sp.; and Masicera senilis- These tvro lists c .'make the total parasites sent parasites sent for use in the warfare against the corn borer, 333,037- -° collect the imported parasites 150 laborers were em- pi oved for two ~;eekc in the summer collecting period, extending from July 25 to August 10, 1926, in northern Italy, and lko dur- ing the months of November and December, 1926, and January and February, 1927. '-- *':

Corn-Borer Control extension Service, 8b. 20 (October 15): Comparison of infestation in Michigan, Ohio, Hew York, and Penn- sylvania , 1925, 1926, 1927.*

Total larvae per 100 stalks

	1S25	1926	1927
Few York	1 . 50 - , , • . 1 . 90 .... 2.66	10.73 5.U0 7-00 6,59	35.56 4.02 10.7S 17.72
average for Thole area .	2.11	S.02	12.98
* Figures for survey not	complete September	19. 1927.

Corn-Borer Control Srto-.sion Service, Fes. 19-21 (October 1-22): ■ Scouting for borers in new territory is still being carried on under the direction of L. S. .'.'orthloy. The following counties hav^ been added this season: Lu7erne, Monroe, and Wayne .

Corn-3orer Control Extension Service, Nos. 17-21 (September 17- October 22) : The following counties have been added this season: Clark, Fairfield, Champaign, Perry, and Belmont.

Corn-Borer Control Extension Service, Hos. 17-21 (September 17- October 22): The following counties have been added this season: Elkhart, Huntington, Mar (shall, St. Joseph, Jay, Randolph, and Waba sh .

Corn-3orer Control Extension Service, Reports Nqs. 19-21 (October 1-22): The follo-i.ng counties have been added this season: Alcon: ^Iper.a .Barry ,■ Eerr i jn, Ingham, Iosco, Kalamazoo, Midland , Pre s^-ue Isle, St. Joseph, Sheboygan, and Arenac.

Corn-Borer Control Sxtension Berwioe, Report 'So. IS (October 1): Scouts in Canada have discovered an infestation in the Cobalt min- ing area, 350 miles north of the original outbreak at St. Thomas, Ontario, said Frof. L. S. IxLr.ine of the Dominion government at Ottawa. Infestations have also been found on St.- Joseph Island

and Manitoulin Island in northern Lake Huron and at several points in Quebec. Nova Scotia has teen scouted "but no "borers found there .

CCH27 EAR tOm ( Hoi io this ot;oicta Fab. )

C. H. 3rannon (October I): This insect v/as reported by the count;; agent of Craven County as severely injuring soy beans.

2. L. Chambers (September 1 5 -October I): Less than 20 per cent of the sreot cor:\-.. southern counties is infested v.ith the

corn oar vrorm.

M. H. Srenk (September 25-Cctober 2$) : Complaints of injury by the third brood of the corn ear "rorm continued to be received in about the normal numb era during the latter part of September and the first '7C2i in October.

COHIT ROOT- .:;0RI:I . (Diabrotica longicomis Say)

• 2. ?. Felt (October 2o) : Corn root v/orm adult r; Tore numerous September 15 in a corn. field at Oiiylerville, Livingston Qounty, being attracted to ears -jhich had been injured by raccoons.

COT7ECA5 et al.

FOUR- SPOTTTa*) BS&N WEEVIL (: iylabri s "luadrimaculatus Fab.)

R. "7. Hamed (October o): Serious injury to field ueas by this species nas reported from Caledonia October 6.

C07TPEA CURCULIO (Chalcodermur aencus 3oh. )

R. *.','. Hamed (October 6): Carious injury "to field peas was also noticed at Caledonia October 6.

CRASS

A WEBWCRii (Cr ambus sp. )

Monthly H,v;s Letter, Los «ngelos County Horticultural Commission. Vol. 9, Ho. 10 (October 15): The smell dark brovm insect larvae found feeding on grass roots and recently reported from many parts of Los Angeles County as causing considerable injury to lawns represent a species of sod rjebworms or crambid, according to determinations received by H. "... .ovnitage, Lntomolo^ist , Los Angles County Horticultural Commission it «o office, from eastern authorities on this group. Those insects are recorded as being of more or less common occurrence throughout the United States, but only occasionally causing serious injury to tiviir hosts. They

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live ir silken tubes just below L, he surface of the soil, feeding on the roots and fol.ir.ro of grasses and cereals and in some of the larger cereals up into the stems.

GREE2J JpNE BEETLE, (Cotinis nit ids L. )

r'Torth • • R. '.7. Lei by (October lU): Larvae of the green June beetle are

Carolina causing considerable damage to grass lawns and golf courses. The

damage appears some -.hat more serious than last year.

C. H. Brannon (October 20): hr. B, W. Bav;or, Gastonia , reports that his home lawn has been seriously dcisarxl by June bug larvae. Mr. A. R. Morrow reports the June bags have caused serious in- jury to golf greens in the vicinity of Slater sville.

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SAN JOSS SGiil-S (Asridiotus pernleiosus Const. )

liddle Atlantic E. Postal (October k): Inspection of export apples from the Eid- States die Atlantic States during the month of September, at the Port of 'ic~' fork, reveals considerable infestation of San Jose scale. Out of approximately forty carloads or part carload?*, inspections, this insect was present in nineteen instrnces, infestation ranging from 1/2 of .1 per cent to ^3 per cent of the apples in inspection samples.

•eorgia 0. I. Spapp (October 20): The San Jose scale increased rapidly

during the summer, and by the latter part of August the infestatio vio.2 very ?ieavy. Recent o btervations have revealed the fact that many of the insects have died since summer, probably as a result of predacious enemies or p ro. sites. The same thing occurred in 152o. I am still wonder i:-.g if the general use of lubricating -oil emulsions for scale control during recent years has not allowed the predacious enemies and parasites of the San Jose scale to be- come more numerous than v.es the case r/hen caustic scale- sprays -.--■ere used.

foio E. W. Ilendenhall (October l): The San Joee sctfle in s out hve stern

Ohio is held ciuite -.veil in check, except in the exceptional out- breaks .

B. A. Porter (October 22): San Jose-scale infestations this season have been about average in intensity, neither unusually light nor unusually heavy.

Chambers (September 15-Cctober l) : A survey for the San Jose scale has been made. There were 25 orchards in Racine

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Oouaty, 75 orchards in the State, and IS city paries found to he infested. Apples, plums, ornamentals, and shrubs -,«re attacked.

JaPaHESH 3SZTLS (Pouillia .iaponica iTe-rn. )

'ew Jersey Llonthly Letter, Bureau of Entomology, Ho. lol (September, 1927):

C"7in^ to the fact that the activities of the adult Japanese beetl- "nave ceased for the present season, it -vas possible on October 1 to lift the Quarantine reflations covering farm prod^icts. Ho beetles have.. been found, in any farm products inspected in the last week of September. Qfoiaag to the unusually cool nights, the few beetles remaining at1 a number of points within the infested area, have shown a tendency to crawl down into f lo we r- blossoms for protection, dahlias being favored in this respect. Since a con- siderable Quantity of cut flo-ers are still being shipped from tte regulated area to outside points, it has bean considered impracti- cable tc permit the unrestricted movement of those articles, as 1 result, the !iuarartine restrictions requiring inspection and certi fication o._ cut flo-ers are being ospt in effect until October 15, ■the maximum limit of the Quarantine on far-, products and cut flowers. Three large shipments of pare site .aaterial were receivec at the laboratory in September. One 01 these, a consignment of Tiphia from India, -as- taken from -the boat at Boston and rushed t< Rivertor. by messenger,, thus 'saving considerable time which other - •Tire vould have been, consumed between these t-o points. ;

ME3I TERR AlvE AH 7RUIT FLY ( Cerati ti s capitata tfiod. )

thilipmnes Monthly Letter, Bureau of Entomology, Ho. 1 Si (September, 1927):

H ~ Till .rd and Arthur 3. Hasan, of the Honolulu station, re- port that records- of infestation of fruits by the Mediterranean fruit fly indicate that the fly was lers abundant about Honolulu during XS27 than during any of the previous c years.

0C3LIFG HOfr (Carroeansa -jcuorella '•.}

1-iddle Atlantic 3. Sostal .Oct char k) : The coding moth has-been co^on in one St-tes c-«*e 20 per cent of the apolas in the inspection sample lor ex-

pTrt be in- infested. Chese a;ocles. of the varieties ^en ^rvie, Oano, Jonathan, and Delicious, were produced ia. the States of Deia-rure, harylancl , Virginia, and .Tost Virginia,

Tndian^ 3 A. Efcrt'ir (October 2Z)a fhis season the control of the codlin

Indian- °'th hag -,-,r mcb less difficult than has b..er. the case in recen

voars" Pu::in: the crol •-eatherShich prilled dghg noet of the axnth of Jt^L-Ct aoat 0' the -orns -cat into hibernation, few Oi then ,ux.ti„g. A* , result, there *ere few pupaa i^om ynicn ;r.oths could emerge during late ^sast and tnc firs., hall 0.

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September, when conditions were very favorable to the codling

mo tii , ~nd the number of late norms vas reduced to a very low point

3. L. Chambers (September IS-Gctober 1): From 6 to 20 per cent o~ the apples are infected with the codling moth over the entire Stat'

APPLE AEFD THORN SSBIET03SHZEH (Hemeroohila pa.rtana Gerck)

C. R. Phipps (October b): This is the first report of this insect in Maine although similar injury was noted on Cutts Island last summer. Foliage turned brown in July and August in un sprayed and lightly sprayed orchards.

2. ?. Felt (October 2d): Apple and thorn skeletonizer adults have been flying in numbers the last two weeks in various localities in the central and southern part of the State, areas where there has been considerable foliage injury the past season.

APPLE MAGGOT (Rhawoletis pomonolla, Wal sh )

F. Z. Brooks (October 1/) ! I desire to report that for the first time within my memory we are having at French Creek a serious out- break of the apple maggot. It seems to be confining its attacks, so far as I have observed, to Grimes Golden, around 7? per cent of the fruits of that Variety are infested. Previous*;' I have fount the species in "Jest Virginia only at elevations around 3.0C0 feet above sea level. This occurrence, at about l.oOO feet altitude , is unusual for this region.

B. L. Chambers (Ssptember l^-October 1): The railroad worm Le very abundant in some La Crosse and Trempealeau County orchards.

SCURFY SCAL3 (Chionasois furfura Fitch)

B, 7i. Hendenhall (October 1): I find that apple trees and even apple stock in the nurseries in southwestern Ohio are V^dly infeq- ted v.-ith the scurfy scale, giving a white appearance.

PEAR SLUG- (Eriocr.nrooidcs limacir.a Retz. )

5. "J. Mendenhall (October 6): I find outbreaks of the pear slugs on pear stock in some of the nurseries in I.'iami County.

PEACH

PEACH BORER Ue^cria oxitiosa Say)

0. I. Snapp (October. 20 /Ifore paradiclilorobanzenc is being used in Georgia this year than for several years. This is largely due to

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a greater "borer infestation. For several years the Georgia peach grov/ers have not "been giving so much attention to this pest as they should, and as a result the infestation has materially 4o* creased and much damage has resulted to the trees.

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Z. W. irendenhall (October 3) : . The v:ork of the peach tree borer is about as severe as usual.

WV P. Flint (October 17 ): Adult peach tre% ftflhery <:fAt\?Sj4$ *

emerge up to October 5, ^ Carbondale, in southern Illinois. In some -cases- pecan ^rov.tr s. in • this "se*ctiofe»had applied par'adi chloroben- zene early in- September. These treatmt woj^ld pr»toably not pre- vent injury by -the iarvae hatching fron. f fjf'At 'Xite*-^9ergia0h- •..

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ORicir'TAL tBXStl! HOIK (Last>cyrrsia molest a ; 3usck)

0. J. Snapp (Octobir ' 21 ) .: Tbisinsect has spread to many new lo- calities in Georgia during the 1927 season, although it is still not a pest of major import,ance_i'n-ssetions where late peaches and apples are not. grom . This insect is now. in. hibernation here.

• SMiulT>7E5D Cidl2aPILLAR..(ACronycta dblinita S. )

'.7. P. Flint- (October 17): This "caterpillar, has been- found in mod- erate numbers on the' foliage of peaeh. ' In" some, case s>as much as 25 per cent -of the " trees in certain -orchards -/ere being b*dly de- foliated by ;this pe^st. " "' ' •'•

TARNI SHED PLANT BUG (Ly^s pratensis.L . ) -

P.- A. Porter. (October ..22 ) : The '• tarni shed plant bug is very abund- ant on almost all plants. Te are .particularly" interested in this species as a peach, pest, and it's abundance this foil threat era seri-»

ous damage < to peaches next spring. . 1 '

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RASPBZRRY FRUIT FORI; (Byturus uni color S-y)

J. J. Shearer (October 2k) : On Vashon Island-, Puget Sound, as the grov7ers of loganberries delivered their crops to the canneries, near Tacoma, they were rejected on the grounds that the berries ... were wormy. :" -• ... . ■

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PECA1T SHUCXFORK (Laspeyresia caryana Fitch)

R. F. Earned (October 27)":"' On October 3, inspector &. P. Colraer ,

libss Point, reported in regard to the pecan chuckuorai as follows: "The sruc>vorms are the rjorst .this yecr that I have seen for <luite a while. They are causing Quite a bit of' premature opening of the shucks and then the pecan itself is discolored. I think the reasor for it is that last year after the stcrm so many of the growers did not attempt to clean up under ths trees and the shucks with the larvae in them -ere not die turned until spring. " another rather serious complaint in regard to the pecan1 shuck^orm rss received on October 3 from Ckolona.

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RED SPIDER (Tetrairychus telrr ius 1. )

Monthly Fejs Letter, Los "agclcs County Hoi ticultural Commission, Vol. 9, No. 10 (October 15): Serious "red spider" injury has been note.** recently in citrus orchards in eastern Los *mgelcs Qounty according to Deputy Horticultural Commissioner, X. 1. T/olff. G-en- erally speaking, demnge has been found to be most severe in orchard r.hich have not been recently irrigated. vTl.ile the number- of spider v;as found to be nearly as great on some of the mor^ recently irri- gated properties, the amount of injury from their attacks \-:is no- ticeably less. In many orchards -vhere control measures Lave not been applied soon enough, the drying and dropping of foliege have been severe.

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BLACK CUT77QRK (.^rotis y^silon Rott. )

R. u. Earned (October 27): T\;o rather serious complaints have been received recently in regard to the greasy cutworm Specimens of this species .identified by S. E. Crumb of the Bureau of Entomology, v;ore received from Ocean Springs on October 7. The correspondent from Ocean Springs stated that they had apparently destroyed his entire uatch of turnips in one night. Specimens t-ntatively iden- tified as this species by J. II. Langston -.-/ere received from Grace on October 22. The correspondent strted that the v/crms had de- stroyed about 2 acres of alfalfa out of a 25-acro field.

POTATO

COLORADO POTATO BEETLE (Lcutinoter sa Jecerrl Ineata Say)

L. L. Chambers (September l^-^ctober 1): The northern counties have been surveyed for the Colorado potato beetle -ith negative

PCTATO LB/iJHQPPSH Cgtooaflca fr.bae Harr.,

2> L. Chambers (September 15-Cctober 1): The potato leafhopper has infested from 2b to 50 per cent of the potatoes in northern counties. Dahlias are also attacked "by it.

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CA53aOE WEBWQRs s (Hellula undalis Pab. )

Mississippi R. ft. Earned (October 27): The imported cabbage webv/orm has

been very abundant in Mississippi during the past few weeks. Cabbage and turnips are the principal crops that have been in- jured. Specimens accompanied by statements in regard to serious damage that they were causing have been recently received from Jackson, Kemper, Monroe, .and Lowndes Counties.

CAB BASE APHID (Brevicoryne brasricae L. )

iississippi . &. f. Earned (October 10): Aphid s --ere reported on cabbage at Hamilton October 10.

3LI3T2H 322TLLS (ifcloidao)

orth , C. H. 3rannon (October 1): Blister beetles have been reported

Carolina to be severely damaging collards near TurVuy, Sampon County.

STDA'TDLBLY

STEAWBE5HY LEA? HOLLLP (^nc.vlis com nt ana IVoehl . )

7e bra ska M. H. Swenk .(Septembler 25-Cctober 25): Strawberry leaf rollers

were reported injuring the foliage of strawberry plants in south eastern Lancaster County daring the second week in October.

Kansas -J. '.7. IxColloch (October 10): A heavy infestation of this in-

sect is reported from North Topeka.

3EAJ HSETLE (Euilachr.a corrupt a "uls. )

beetle

"ew York IT. ?. Howard (September 22): The Mexican bean/has been reported

from Steuben County.

arj'land E. ZsT. Cory (October 1): & single beetle has been found by L'r.

Sanders in pine needles at Bee Laboratory grounds, at Somerset.

orth C. H. 3rannon ^October 3L): Thic pest has caused tremendov.s

Carolina age all over the infested areas of the State this year. It is

spreading east rapidly and has been found in Columbus and up through Martin and Halifax Counties. (October 20): Mr. C.

his corn-ami ty attached by a veri beetles and thet ell garden beans control ras employed.

!T. F. Howard (oeotenfoer '2S) : This insect has been reported from the following counties: Chesterfield, herlboro, Darlington, Dillon, Llc, Sumter, Barnwell, and Orangeburg.

E. ff, Mendenhall (October 12): The Heiti can bean beetle has been reported as very injuricrs in Harrison County during the summer and fall.

iC. F. Ho-vard (September 23): The Mexican bean beetle has been reported irosi the foilordng counties: Oakland, Yfeyue , end IvicCom

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STRIP3D CCJCO? Q3ER HSKDLS (Diabrotica vittata Fab. )

B. L. Chambers (September la-October 1): The striped cucumber beetle has been observed on cucumbers in the southwestern .err t o the State, but no notice.- hie d mage . .

SQUASH

1 2DCIT fiORjJ (Pi aphakia byalinata I.) :

K. L. Cocker: a'tt (October 19) : This insect vras found damaging late -/iuash at Biloxi ' during September.

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PaRSLBY STALIN YiTEVIL (Li str^notus latiusculus boh. )

W. P. Flint (October 17 ): The results of a recent survey in the infested terri fcory yd thin a ^0-mile radius cf Fast St. Louis sho-Ted over half the carrot patches infested pith this carrot weevil, the infestation ranging from 10 to 100 per cent with an average of about 40 per cent.

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TUPkJJF AFhkL (Rhocal p si ph-am ns end obra s si gag Davis)

K. L. Cocker ham (October 19): Doing considerable damage to tur- ni ps and rru st ■: rd .

CtBRQE BEETLE (li.rvrus gibpogas DeC . )

J. 7. McColloch (September 2^): Carrot beetles are causing seri ous injury- to turnips at Iraki n.

iTorvell of Wendell reports . table plague of Mexican bean have been destroyed There no

SERIIS5J) FLEA BEETLE (Phillotreta vittata Fab )

K. L. Cockerhan (October -19) : The striped flea beetle ioiu.._ ■ serious damage to turnips in Bi'ioxi during September end October.

STOS? PQPA20 : .

:.7.1!ITRCPICAL AfthTnJCBl! (Prodenia eridania Cram. )

a. w. Harned (October 13) J Serious injury to one corner of a sweet -potato field near Vicksturg was r ewer ted cn October 13, "py the semi tropical arrayworm, ^"lom^ges eridania.

SO'UTHSBI FIlllD-CROf INSECTS CCfTC^

BOLL wSZVIL (.Jithonomus grand! g Boh.) PIliK U0L1- 'tOB?.i (Pectinouhora eQssypiej.la Saund.)

I. Jackson, 4merica» Consul (October 1C): Due to the great amount of dajaage by the boll weevil and pink boll worm, the 1927 cottcn crop of the Laguna region, which in June was placed at 90,000 bales, is nor; estimated' at not more than 7 3", 000 bales. & certain ainount of damage is .-.always expected in the laguna from the pink boll worm, but the boll weevil as a rule does but little damage. This year, ho never, both ere exceedingly bad and the damage being Thought by them -ill anoint to at least 30 per cent of the crop.

BOLL V;CB:: (heliethis ebscleta Jab.)

C. H. Brannon (October 27): The counts iige'nt of Halifax Counts- reports under date of October 21 "In the field ahere they were found there was an average of at least t.;o bolls per stalk that were ruined, and the built; that th:. s vor.a ruined vjere the ones we had saved from the -»c3vil by dusting . "

£ ST. ilorrill (Ccto^r 2): following "a thorough clean-up of in- fested wild cottcn plants in the Y-Aui Valley as ""ell as the only field of cultivated cotton in the valley in 132a, no infestation of the I927 ^rop r;as - discovered until late in September in fields kept under close ' surveillance during the season. Z'o damage possi- ble to the 19^7 crop.

GCT'.XiT 13^ ".'.'Oil!.: (alabrma ar . rills ce.a Hubn. )

3. A. Porter (October 22): "rait in this section has been prac - tically uninjured \& the moth of this species. Cue yo-er re- ported that only a few moths of the cotton leaf worm were present 1

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about the middle of September, imis is very different from the situation in 1^2 j, when the moths appeared in September by nillioi and caused serious damage,

E. .1. McDaniel (October 12): The first specimen of Alabama argil la cea in lOLehigrn,. so far ar has come to our r.otice, xirs dis- covered yesterday. This creature has not yet appeared in numbers, only a single specimen having been observed at Erst ^ansing.

FOBS ST A N D SHADE-THEE I IT SECTS

::iscELLA:rE:u£ ?ze:,;is

APffilDAE

J. C. Evenden (October S) j Throughout the city of Libby the elms, imported ashes, and boxelders are being seriously attacked by aphid s (species uh^ncvm). This attack is so heavy as to in.- e seriously the appearance of the trees and to cause the denth of seme fe- individuals ;

TallTSrliAHiSD TUSSOCK MOri£ (Hemer.oc wa lsuco stigma S. & a. )

I. I. H. S^-enk (September 25-Cctober 25) : The white*-marked tussock moth continued to be conspicuous during the period covered by this report.

COTT027VOOD D&KxSB Ucronvctn ^or/ui Riley)

II. H. Snenk (Sept ember 2p«-Gctobcr 25): inuring the latter part of September and the first ten days of October the cottonrvood dagger moth, Ax;: tela go.^u'Li . appeared in conspicuous numbers on the shade trees of Lincoln.

FIFE IE A? SCALE (Chionaroi s oinifoliae 4 itch)

h. H. S\.enk (September 25-October 25): Complaints of injury by the pine leaf scale on spruce ?nd pine continued to be received during the poriod hero reported.

WOOXiLy ALDER AF3ID (rrocinhilus tessel'latue Eitcb)

E. ?. felt (October 2o) : Millions of the young were leaving fiom adult masses ml going dom the branches and tree trunks and cov- ering the ground for a couple of feet around the base, in '.he case of an alder some 30 feet high in highland Fork. Several other near-by aide1.- trees tier* not infested (?- . E. Horsey) .

AttBOHVITAE

i BSD SPIDSB ( Par ate tranychns unfungiils J:«c. )

K.-.r.r..-,chnpotlB A. I Bourne (October 13) : Several hundred arborvitae trees' con- stituting the "haze" at Cedar Hill, Ilassachusetts Girl Scortc 1 Headquarter s , Walt ham, are heavily infested by the spruce mite. This ras determined by Prof, barman as Pirate t ranychus uniungais

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m 30XELHE3, 3DG (Leotocor i f tr iv: tt/ .tus Say)

Kansas J. W. McGolloch (October 20): At this season of the year the

Dor.elder bugs are provi-ie; a serious annoyance in many homes eve: the State.

CATaIiPA

OATALPA SPHIITX (Ocratomir catalpae hoisd. )

Oilio 3- -7. ifendenhail (October 7): I find an outbreak of the catalpa

sphinx moth in hiari County. They come much later this year.

Illinois P. Flint (October 11): . The eetalpa sohm:: has been a little

lees r.jriferous than during the last tyro or -three seasons, iiany have report ad part o- complete defoliation.

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Indiana 2, a. Porter (October 22): The catalpa sphinx is rathe? scarce

this season, and very little defoliation has been observed.

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Shi' LP -VP BaPTLP. (Paleruoella xanthome! a en a Schranls:]

Ohio P. ~*. henderhall (October : -he epi leaf beetle har done con-

siderable damage to the elm trees in Hamilton ar.d vicinity. The city and property o*ners are not keeping up vrith their spraying as they saculd.

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DCUGLlS-TIP 3ESDL3 (Dendr octonus pseudotsugae Kopk. )

I Ion tana J. 0. Evenden (October 8); Throughout the western part of the

State the Bougies' fir beetle is -destroying a rather alarming volume of Souglas fir annually. Thi 3 loss occurs in rrorps of

' trees scattered t.l ::.-r. h.oat the forested area.

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. JEJIESH SGALB (.hi 1.3- is c.Tueli Tar-?. )

^fcndennall (October £0) : • The juniper scale is badly in- festing junipers in gTsee;x>.o'j,ses in Troy.

LOCUST

HICIICRY 30J&?. (Oyliene rofoniae " jForst . )

If. ri'. S-.enn: (eept ember ?5~0cto"ber 25) : & Cheyerne County corres- pondent reported that t.ha locust ' bOrer r?as "present in such abund- ance in a large grove of black locust trees, not nearly ho eai' s old, that during- the past su-p.er 25 per cent of the trees showed infestation, and about IOC of them --ere hilled.

J. 0. 2 vends n (October 8): Dlaxing the pj.st year the cottony ne.pl « scale has increased in such number!? as to becorre a serious pest o- the shade trees thrpp^hent the city' of Qo'ckb? d'alene. Plans for corinfunity control have been started for the season of 1^,28.

h_hh^-SJhIrfD WCRJ! (Jnirota rubicund. ~ab. )

h. .1. "re-":: (September 2S-0ctpber 25) ' * correspondent fron Sags -County reports early in October that the second brood cf the green-striped nc-.pie yorm had stripped .the -maple trees on his place Quite clpan of leaves! Sue first brood had been injurious earlier in the see^on.

' • I'CUFIhJH PISE HEETLS (Eendroetonus montiac-lae Honk. ) .

J. C. Sveneen (October G) : Throughout the rite- pine stands of northern Idaho the losses due to the" attack of the mountain pine beetle increased materially during the 1-2.6-27 seasons. This con- dition indicates strrt of another epidemic in the -hi te -pine sianc. - of thi s region. Recent s-.irveys shor: that in sortie i-roas over 50 oer cent of the vhite pine has been destroyed in the past 10 years' Qirouehout the Salmon h Challir, Soise, Idaho, .trd Payette ITationa'.' ' Tor 3 st s a yery severe outbreak of the mountain pine beetle exists in the lodye pole-pine and i ell d~- pine stands. It is imvoossib. e • to even estimate tne de'raa^e —inch has occurred at this time. It is safe to assume that in the next ie~t y jar s at least '40 per cent of the timber stands "dll be killed.

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Montana J. G. Svenden (CecoQer 3): For the past i'ev years e serious epi-

demic cf the* mountain pine tee tic has existed in. the pine stands (lodge pole pine and yellow pine) of the 3a st Fork drainage of the Bitter Root Biver. From 30 to J. JO per cent of the timber on the areas over vhich this epidemic hae spread has been destroyed. . In the past year or two this infestation has spread into the Big'HolA Basin and til? Jassaula National Forest.

J3FF11EY-PIFF; B3E3TLE '.Landro c tonus tjef f reyi Hopk. )

California Monthly Letter, Bur sen of Fivtomoio-y, "Mo. lol (September, 1327) :

and J. M. Miller reports that an infestation of the Jeffrey-pine oeetla

Oregon "of several years1 standing on the Inyo rational Forest has declined

this year. A few years ago a large windfall occurred in this re- 1 gion , several million feet of timber being blown down. This ir.fesl tation developed in the blow-downs, and attacked green timber, but soon lost its momentum ::.ft,-r the dying timber from the windfalls w.t»b no longer available. Surveys of fee California- • -Oregon control project area, conduct el by F. ?. Keen during the recent summer, show the heaviest losses of the last .1.0 ye ws. In 1927 more than

330,000,000 feet of timber - ere willed.- Private owners in this rel gion ore very much disturbs , and it is prob..ble that a great deal! of control work will bo carried on during the coring -.-/inter end spring. \

PUTS ?CLT.I (Oh:. oaf's jig rinj f o"1 lap Jltch)

Ohio 3 . W. Meudenhall (October- £?) : The pine leaf scale is 4u.it e abundl

ant on several 0*" the pines on ".oa»3 of the properties in Troy.

FI13 B-.-i.RM LOUSjJ (Oherr.es uiniccr ticis FwchJ

Ohio - 3. "J. Mendenhali (October 13) : Pine bark aphid c are infesting the]

white pine?, ir. Cincinnati to -„o:2 extent.

Febraska M. H. S.Tenk (September P^-Octobsr 2^): In P.ickardnoa Coiuity an

.ornamental white-pine tree in a farmer's yard -ras fourd to be heavily infested with the white-pi we oor.-t louse in the latter part; of September,

California

k L"'-.-i.ih.0.?rZn (idiocerus sw.vcr n G error )

Le-i? (October 3}: lenag-o >inite general ic hc-iborc.y pop] rjarly hills. Jnjiar.y accompanied by smutting of trees. I:

jury chiefly

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TULIP SC/ii-E (-cumeyeila liriodendri Gnjjel, )

5. P. Felt (October 2o): Twigs badly infested rath the tulip scale were received the middle of the month from Liillbrook, Dutchess County.

C- E E S I' H 0 U 3 -3 A S D 0 H IT A M E .IT T A L PLANTS

CHR.YS AITTHEI' CUI.I

C.HBYSiiiV:: jj&SJM G-alL HIDSE ( L i ar t hr o n o m - r i a h Tjor^es Lcen)

Qhl° 21 • 'r- Mendenhall (October 12): The chrysanthe mum midge is doing

damage to chrysanthemum in a greenhouse in Delaware.

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IRIS 30KEO, (Macronoctna onvuta. Crete)

Wisconsin 3. L. Chambers (September lp-Octooer l): Infestation of iris by

the iris borer is vury severe in some parts of the State in nursery plantings, being as high as §0 per cent.

WHITS EB/,0H SCriLh l^placasris pentagona Tnrg. )

New York ^ 3. ?. Pelt (October 26); The West Indian peach scale persists

on Japanese cherry in the vicinity of :>.v York City to such an extent that pprk authorities have experienced difficulty in con- trolling it by- ordinary spray applications.

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LILnC LBriP IIILIEll (Oracilaria syringe 11 a ?ab. )

JJew York E. p. relt (October 26); lilac leaf miner larvae continue to

feed upon the leaves of lilac, ash, and privet in Rochester, though bat few could be found the last of the month (? .3. "or sey ) .

liMSSQIJLA CC.flh' (heolecarium car nuaarvum Thro. )

Lien York P. p. Pelt (October 2o)-j The magnolia scale has beau extreme- <T

abundant on two large, magnolia tfaes on private grconds at Jloch ester, the scales being thickly crowded on the. under side of the smaller branches, ore tree being half dead (a. E. horsey).

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A VmmiGtl) M0C7H (Indothenna hcbesana 7/alkor)

..arylana 3. jr. Cory (Sept amber 3): Slight damage to' pent&temon by

Sndo-chenfa he be sara Walter has been reported' from Co 11 ego Park.

Chio

SOW? S04I3 (Cocaus hegpegid-am L. )

Ghi0 E- *■ »Bdenhail (Cctober 3): I find a seals, Coccus hesrseria-uj.

infesting viaca vines oh plantations near Dayton, but not doiar milch damage .

MBt»8XX9 Wm (lelechia. serotiaella 3usch)

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T/. ile; daahall (September 27): I fi;.d this insect very ba- the leaves of the redbaa or Judas tress at Dayton. It -vac de- stroying the leaves.

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FISAS (Cter.ocsrh- In-:, car. is Curtis)

(Cteaocephalus f <jlis Bouche)

"Ji scon sin 2. L, Chambers (Sept ember 1 --October 1): I!anj complaints of

cat and dog fleas have come in daring the past tr;o v;eeks, of nuisance in d-el lings.

Nebraska h. E. &mm*t (September 25-Gctober : ^oerplaiats of infestations

-ith Ctehocetnalus cani s continued to be recei vac" during the latter part of Se it amber and the first ten days of October.

Oeaeral f. C. Bishcrpp (October )r reports of household and factor:/ in-

statenent fe stations of fleas continued to come throughout the month, ahesS

came mainly from -'eans-ylvania , haryiead, Virginia, and Chio. One I

-/as recei v 3d from Connecticut.

PUSS CAlilRHJjLAT. (Meqalotage circular is S. Z-

horth C. E. Braraon £Octobur i): This insect stung several people in

Carolina vddeiy separated sections of Forsyth County near V.'inscon-Salem.

ka elderly lady was stung ana the physic ia;: attended her said I that she nearly died as she bad a weak heart. Ail v.ho T7ere stung |

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suffered severe pain and had to ?e operated on for relief. . These caterpillars -..'ere feeding on pea: and cherry foDiafe red those vfoo T/ere stung -.vers picking' fruit, Mr. R. h\ Pan. county agent, For sy til County, sent in specimens and first reported the activities of the pest.

HCRi" FLY (Piemato boa irritans L. )

- • G- Bishopp (October 23): jir. D. 0. Parraan reports as f ollo-s: "The horn fly ?yas rarely noticeable at Uvalde audring the sunbojr, and there -cre. general ly less than -100 on on;; animal ^October 1-10. fit Brackettville the same conditions prevailed. At del ?_io there Tears a ie-7 more flies; some cattle had as many as 5001 Cn October 18 and 1$ flies -ere noticeable on all cattle and some had as i.an- as ^,000 to 2,500 at Substation and Sonpra. <ibout the same con- ditions prevailed at Or on'., csnd Sheffield on October 20 and 21 as at Sonora. There were more ilics at Tort Stockton, some cattle havirg as many as 3,000 to 3,5.00. ~t UpiEO ana ifcrfa on October 21 and 22' flies -vere annoying all animals to a rreat extent and some cattl had error mu of the flies 5>000 to 10,0<X. The horns of all cattle are discolored at the "base oy excrement i)i flies and some cattle appear to have a pint of flies settled on the horns and aboiit the head: . "

A2T OS 7ARBLS 'Kypoderaa lineatnai LeVill

F. 0. Bishopp (October): D. Overman err- tihed cattle in a number of different localities in sc-uthr© stern Sexus shoydn--; that there is si .great variation in the seasonal development of the fcrups in the animals, vjhile at uvaldo many gribs vcre in the fifth instar dry some had Lirtured and left the hosts. Iho following conditions i7Cre noted at pointer* stward: ..iarfa, October 22, an oxa-dn,tion of 52 mature dairy cattle showed an average of 1.7 grjfbs ocr head v;h?c had appeared in the sabderawl tissues cf the back to cb.te. ■••iarimum number in one animal -as 17. All grube in third and fourth instars Del Rio, October 11-13, lit'. Parman examined 199 dairy cattle and fcu^d that no grubs had apperred along tve backs. Fort Stockton, October, 20, 20 cattle v;er e exuoinod, but no grubs -;re rrepe.it along the backs.

BllJ.;«« DCS TICK ("hi: .' ig: ehi.ius rr :~uir. ^j-; Lath . )

F. 0. Bishopp (October 25): Specimens of the brown dog tick sent in from Chestnut Hill vdth a report that they T/ere on Iops end around houses. This is the. first rcecrl of taking Shis tick in

GHICiGlI LICE

i.Iaryland F, C. Bishopp (Goto jo r 25) : The normal fell reduction ir the

and numbers of chicken iicc is taking place. Several flocks have

Virginia been observed aith moderate to heavy infestations of body lice.

Shaft lice appear to be next in amber, v,dth head, fluff, and • "x.rig lice comparatively scarce.

PISSOT HIPPOBCSCID (Lochia raaura Bigot)

Washington,!*. C. i". 0. Bishopp (October }1): Specimens of the pigeon hipiJobcsci<? have beeii received from the district 5t Columbia.

1 2T S S 3 3? S I Sf I ^ EOUSZS

Kansas 7. 7. Hc&olloch (October S) : Termites have Mi? ed fi^e cherry

trees in a yard at Kinsley.

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Cllnriomoriufo nbaraonis I

'li ssi ssipl-i 11. H. Smith (October 27): - - • 0. -; Seal of the department of

Botany of the i.'isiissippi «-.. c Collogo recently received a package of plant a from Utica, on vttich. \7ere many workers end three Inecns el fhsr^oVc -nt. Ihis shoes' hov; cosily this specie • , is spread from terra to to n through shipments of plants, grocorio^,: and other form? of cornier ce. •

XissisoUiri R. Smith (October' Inspector . 7. L. Oray, *Jat chez , rocentl:

sent to this office specimens of th.. Argentine ant vhich he tcoic from a ohip, the Florv,.ice, ahich had djckod at "latches. He states fl tlia% the ants -ere vaiv« pientiiul en board the snip. It plies'. ' J oetWeri Fort Adams and ITatchez, Hiss, and Tidal ia-, La -ad oe: - ^ QP.ps othfcv pl.ee;.

Flfi'J Al'I (Solen-jnsis epomina ta ?ab. )

Mississippi 11. E. .Smith (October 27): The fire ant continu -s to be the source

of much complaint. Ihe ants are couplaincd of as Oottin^ into food, especially rx.se, meats, butter;, etc., stinging children, eati^ holes into clothia/, c;i riling small citrus trees and \ table 'plants; mi. do in.* other damage 7:ich 7*11 ronk it second to the -ir ^entire ant as a post in this St^to. Inspector wio&lcy

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Hinos of TaZpo City reports feat the fire n * - ,

may ci the pupae of the cotton il^ f S foUnd destroying

Harrison of the Bureau of 3 S0^ ^ £ ^ *■ « citrus tree, the roots and base of ^f? f °XIlce a young

boon veiled by ,or..r3 of S nre ant aiOTt -pletaly girdled the tree but ted « ^ had not ou-

tranks in small prtc>es r51 froni tLe *<>ots end

■ rpeek-fhaped ^^^^^t M -U pits * ' county agent, Pascaeoui* ! J"al3; ' Kr'

*i<* he stated -wo bcir^ BS^StvlF' V*8 S0?^ eggplants

™.tion of the totT^sr&i^t^v^ r- *

fcudmaUy in the stems of fw> ~i !*T. -iad uurrow;d longi-

teristio pock.^;ed ^o":;^tPoin^a?Q 31 °° 8*tS» » cha?r.c of the plant,. g\g ^ stem and root,

our attention to irjurv to the J^fS^w* K& * Colle-e called W.. -hi3 in^y S^f^^.f?^ ^dsn ^ fire gnawed in the nod-- at the w- T - fairiy prominent holes ' nrtUto ako^m sX t; 50n8 °f J** pods small

Ihe ,ritcr ^V^^^ by the ants als<

■gnavdng holes into the ' b, aT 0V ^ ;*'v„ °" ^? of ^

reported as feeding on wILftettE ^ 2? TOtB **•

u" uJia ^t&er in the house.

BLACZ BDUS3 AST (Monotnarliiw minimum Sack.)

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g w-^j-iin-^s in ij amber ton. 2. ?. Mendenball (October 13)-' The &tH~> i s-

have been a. great nuisance in ^rfl0 '°7 ? ' ^Cjiorij^ minimtrm. -

xii acn s and la* n-.e r'-.o ~

fforth Car

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xa-.Txs the pagt summer*.

All AiTT (?.^;iPy gessile Say)

".*' Smith- -(Oct oho- 27); This epodLoe is lnfn«U>l*

joining houses at Grenada that itV' kvL ^' ^ ^ ^'

1 pis *hf « «*t. The ants": ' ^- V^-^C SS1°n

some 01 the houses oat ~rv- ™i - " av-"lv~ «*° /oar round m

0- house ,hi0h til £i tS e5JS T^f J? ^tc «*- *

- - ioo box. Several hunare^ "^cit4°^w *fS ™* -voro observed in fig proserS! ? ' tn doad ^d ^ivo,

noticed the ants fesuS S'! > ^*toepera m this section hate cob, haloed chicken; ^ £ f K;0015' eorn cn tb

Cut of doors, the LlJ^e to belo^dS* *?. boiled

trunks in streams tirge enough to re^nl I? :nd d°"^ trti^

They -ere noted attendi- fhf \l i ^ Pf the pontine a.it.

a species of aphid on h^llyhtck? GpR,Cn VGtur oak ™d f

-mot, aa«oaror to find Plnoe; ;r^fccStS.

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Illinoi

Kansas

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Kiey SWarjB into dwellings, ' schocl houses, tome times completely cov- ering the electrical fixtures and ether objects suspended iron: the

ceilings, also crawling into beds, en

numbers hrve

CTC-aRZTTS 2B2TLB (La sioderma serricorr.e Tab. )

T7. P, Flint (October 17): The cigarette beetle has been reported as damaging upholstered furniture in the homes and in r tores. Thi~ pestsf. iG tecomin^ one of our ;nost commonly reported household

J. ::. McCoilodi (October 17): The cigarette beetle is giving a lot

of trouble in a furniture store at' Abil-.ne.

M. 3. Kungerford (September 30): The cigarette beetle has been re- ported attacking upholstered furniture at Olathc.

POTHER POSE 3SSTLES (L.-ctuc

STO.

?. Hiitt ( Oct o cor 17): Several- east

of injury by the larvae of

a beetle to telephone plugs have been reported from east-central Illinois, ..his injury is caused by the eating off of the lead tongue inside the fuse plug, nd having the sane effect as blowins the plug. '&

J. !7. McColloch (October 5): Severe- injury, especially to lath. M

is reported in a house in Johnson County, '

Sfeferdjgka i-. r. Sverk (September 2_^etobcr £5) > Stored-grain pests have

been less troublesome than usual during the present fall, though a few complaints of infestations of stored wheat and shelled Ccr«

have oeen received from various parts of the State.

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D/iTuC IIi.-iL ITQHM (?c:iobrio ocsc-urus Fab. )

.*. HcCollcch (October 11 }: The dark meal -.xr>n was found abund-

in an ear of corn ot St. Francis.

RICE TJEE7IL

dondra oryza L. )

"°rth.. k- - c"- (October lh) : Fro- letters received it -ould nnro^r

u*rolina that tnc rice -eovil is more abundant thai usual in the wheat

p of to stern Forth Carolina.