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WHITEFRINGED BEETLES ( Graphogna thus spp .) - ALABAMA - Adults leaf feeding on 

 peanuts and other plants throughout Henry, Houston, Geneva, and other 

 counties. Ranged 1-5 per 3 row feet in one soybean field in Geneva County. 

 Foliage damage to peanuts serious on 2 farms in Western Coffee County and 

 several fields in Houston County; controls applied. (Stephenson et al.). 



HAWAII INSECT REPORT 



General Vegetables - LEAF MINER FLIES (Liriomyza spp.) mines heavy in small 

 planting of snap beans at Pearl City, Oahu. Mines moderate in 60 percent of 

 leaves in 1,000 square foot of green onions at Koko Head; light in 25 percent of 

 leaves in similar host in adjacent planting. (Au, Kawamura) . Larvae of CABBAGE 

 WEBWORM (Hellula rogatalis ) trace in 5,000 square foot planting of daikon 

 (Raphanus sativus longipinnatus ) ; moderate to heavy 65-80 percent of plants 

 infested in small plantings of kai choi (Brassica juncea ) at Koko Head, Oahu. 

 SOUTHERN GREEN STINK BUG (Nezara viridula ) nymphs and adults light in small back- 

 yard planting of long beans at Ewa, Oahu; 20 percent of adults bore eggs of 

 Trichopoda pennipes (a tachina fly). (Kumashiro et al.). 



Forest and Shade Trees - Larval populations of a MONKEYPOD KIAWE CATERPILLAR 

 (Melipotis indomita ) and MONKEYPOD MOTH ( Polydesma umbricola ) : On Oahu, appear 

 to be declining and most monkeypod trees apparently recovered from earlier attack. 

 Melipotis indomita moderate under bark of few monkeypod trees, with denuded 

 canopies at Kapiolani Park. LIGHT BROWN APPLE MOTH (Epiphyas postvittana ) ; 

 larvae light in 200+ acres of Pinus spp. at Polipoli, Maui; feeding apparently 

 causing sporadic dieback of P. taeda terminals. A EURASIAN PINE APHID (Pineus 

 pini ) ; Moderate on Pinus plants at Pulehu, Wailuku, Kahului, and Makawao, Maui; 

 Pinus spp. in forests in these areas remain uninfested. (Miyahira) . 



General Pests - All stages of a LEAFHOPPER (Opsius stactogalus ) heavy in 200 foot 

 hedge of Tamarix aphylla at Eleele, Kauai; caused severe russeting of foliage. 

 (Sugawa) . 



Beneficial Insects - Percentage internodes of Tribulus terrestrls and T. cistoides 

 found to be infested or damaged by a PUNCTUREVINE STEM WEEVIL ( Microlarinus 

 lypriformis ) : 82 at Puunene and Maalaea (239 internodes examined) ; 84 at Lahaina, 

 Kihei, and Waikapu, Maui, (183 internodes examined) respectively. (Miyahira). 

 MELASTOMA BORER (Selca brunella ) infested 39 percent of fruits, 16 percent of 

 terminals of Indian rhododendron (Melastoma malabathricum ) at various areas on 

 Hawaii. (Yoshioka) . AN ENCYRTID WASP ( Aphycus~mexican us) emerged from Ceroplastes 

 cirripedif ormis (barnacle scale) infesting fiddlewood (Citharexylum spinosum ) at 

 Hawaii Kai, Oahu. About 85 percent determined this species; 15 percent 

 Coccidoxenus mexicanus. (Kawamura). 



