4 BULLETIN 1357, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Chester, Pa. Grapes, oats, rye, millet heads, peach, and apple are |} 
reported as hosts in correspondence from State entomologists. | | 
The earliest published record of its occurrence under glass is by | 
Cory (6, p. 206), who reported that “it was found injuring a rose 
planting in the establishment of a Baltimore florist,” during 1916. 
Specimens received by the Bureau of Entomology which bear the | 
date of October 28, 1916, were taken from rose by R. E. Snod- 
grass, at Indianapolis, Ind. Specimens now in the Indiana State | 
collection were obtained in greenhouses at Cumberland on Novem- 
ber 8, 1916, and H. F. Dietz collected beetles in the same green- | 
houses on December 5, 1917. Peterson (23, p. 468) reports severe | 
injury in a greenhouse in New Jersey in 1917. 
Fic, 1.—The ‘“‘ shot-hole’”’ punctures characteristic of the feeding of adults of the 
strawberry rootworm on strawberry and rose foliage 
A number of other reports which relate to its occurrence in green- 
houses have been published within the last three years, but no earlier | 
records have been found. 
To sum up the foregoing reports and records, the following may 
be listed as food plants: ; 
Amygdalus persica___. Peach. Malus spp__-__-_____. Wild crab. 
Aster ericoides______-. Heath aster. Malus sylvestris______ Apple. 
Avena sativa___-_____ Oats. -| Potentilla spp__-_____. Cinquefoil. 
Chaetochloa italica___. Millet. ROSA Spps22225 aa Rose. 
Mracaria tsps ee Strawberry. Rubusespps222 22 sees » Raspberry, 
Juglans cinerea______- Butternut. blackberry. 
Juglans nigra________. Black walnut. | Secale cereale________ Rye. 
Juglans sieboldiana___ Japanese SOrbDUS Spps = eee » Mountain ash. 
walnut. Vitis sppii.l 22 _224asG@rapes 
Juniperus spp____--_- Juniper. 
RECENT INJURY IN GREENHOUSES 
In 1919, shortly after receipt of the reports concerning the in- 
festations in Virginia and Indiana, a visit to the one in Alexandria, 
