- 781 - 



REDLEGGED HAM BEETLE (Necrobia rufipes ) - TENNESSEE - Infested smoke room of 

 meat-packing house in Putman County. Controls applied. (Bruer) . VIRGINIA - Medium 

 infestation in hams in Loudoun County on December 2. Collected by W.J. Brown. 

 (Allen) . 



BENEFICIAL INSECTS 



A PYRALID MOTH (Parargyractis fulicalis ) - VIRGINIA - Adults collected by D.L. 

 Barnes on trunk of Elms in Scott County on September 3. Determined by D.C. 

 Ferguson. Larvae feed on aquatic vegetation in streams and lakes, (Allen). 



FEDERAL AND STATE PLANT PROTECTION PROGRAMS 



PINK BOLLWORM ( Pectinophora gossypiella ) - ARIZONA - Larval counts of lint 

 cleaners in Yuma County cotton gins per bale: Parker Valley 76, Union 28, 

 Scmerton 70, Yuma 97, Blaisdel 2, Roll 92, Blaisdel 2, Yuma 8, and Somerton 30. 

 Larval counts per bale at lint cleaners in Cochise County cotton gins November 

 30 to December 8: Bowie 3, Elfrida 3, Kansas Settlement 3, San Simon 5, and 

 Stewart Area 3. (Ariz. Coop. Sur.). NEW MEXICO - Counts in cotton bolls ranged 

 64-100 percent in several fields in southern Eddy County. (Mathews). Spotty in 

 top bolls in southern Dona Ana County. All larvae found alive. (N.M. Coop. Rpt . ) . 

 OKLAHOMA - Surveys during November show general increase in central counties. 

 Populations declined in extreme eastern, southeastern, and western counties. 

 Green bolls ranged 25-50 percent infested in Bryan, Garvin, Cleveland, McClain, 

 Payne, and Pawnee Counties. Lint cleaner inspections in these counties positive. 

 Light infestations on lint cleaners in Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Haskell, 

 Wagoner, and McCurtain Counties, Green bolls from 6 fields in McCurtain and 

 Choctaw Counties negative. One larva found in 100 green bolls from a green- boll 

 trap at gin in McCurtain County, (Okla, Coop., Sur.). 



SOYBEAN CYST NEMATODE ( Heterodera glycines ) - SOUTH CAROLINA - Cysts recovered from 

 farm at Loris, Horry County, November 9, 1971 by J.L. McKee . Determined by V.H. 

 Owens, confirmed by A.M. Golden. This is a new State record. (PP) . MISSISSIPPI - 

 Cysts recovered in Itawamba County on September 9 by G.B. Worley. This is a new 

 county record. Determinations by V.H. Owens, confirmed by A.M. Golden. (PP) . 



TULIPTREE SCALE ( Toumevella liriodendri ) - CALIFORNIA - Surveys showed 2 

 new infested properties in Sonoma County this period. (Cal. Coop. Rpt.). 



WEST INDIAN SUGARCANE ROOT BORER (Diaprepes abbreviatus ) - FLORIDA - Found 

 feeding on hairy indigo at Plymouth, Lake County, in association with citrus. 

 This is a new host. (PP) . 



DETECTION 



New State Records - AN APHID ( Cinara pinivora ) - MARYLAND - Prince Georges County, 

 (p. 779). AN APHID ( Rhopalosiphum padi ) - VIRGINIA - Botetourt County, (p. 777). 

 A MOSQUITO ( Aedes riparius ) - PENNSYLVANIA - Indian Gap Military Reservation, 

 (p. 780) . AN OLETHREUTID MOTH ( Paralobesia liriodendrana ) - ALABAMA - Macon 

 County, (p. 779) . PALM LEAF SKELETONIZER ( Homaledra sabalella ) - ALABAMA - Mobile 

 County, (p. 779) . A PIERID MOTH ( Phoebis sennae ) - ALABAMA - Marengo County 

 (p. 779). A SNAIL ( Rumina vecollata ) - ALABAMA - Montgomery County, (p. 778). 

 SOYBEAN CYST NEMATODE ( Heteroda glycines ) - SOUTH CAROLINA - Horry County, 

 (p. 781) . 



New County and Island Records - BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER ( Loxosceles reclusa ) 

 ALABAMA - Mobile (p. 780). A CADDIS FLY ( Cheuma topsyche~a"nalis ) HAWAII - Kauai 

 (p. 782). A DERMESTID ( Anthrenus museorum) IOWA - Warren (p. 780). 

 AN OLETHREUTID MOTH ( Rhyacionia bushnelli ) CALIFORNIA - Kern (p. 779). SOYBEAN 

 CYST NEMATODE ( Heterodera glycines ) MISSISSIPPI - Itawamba (p. 781). SPOTTED 

 ALFALFA APHID ( Therioaphis maculata ) MINNESOTA - Dakota (p. 777). A WEEVIL 

 (Anacentrinus deplanatus) MISSISSIPPI - Quitman (p. 777) . 



