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have not been applied. Reports of injury have heen received fron Man- 
hattan, Junction City, and Saint George. 
ASPARAGUS 
ASPARAGUS BEETLES ( Crioceris spy.) 
Maine. 4. E. Brower (July 20): £. duodecinpumctata L. common on garden 
plantings in Augusta.. 
New York. iT. Y. State Coll. Agr, Ilexes Letter (July l4): Larven of C. 
asparagi L, nearly mature in Lewis County, western New York. 
Utah. G. E. Knowlton (July S): C. asparagi L. damaging sone maturing 
asparagus at Lo r gan and northwest of Ogden. 
HOPS 
HOP APHID ( Phorodon humuli Schr. ) 
Oregon. H. E. Morris on (July 15)1 Unusual hot spell in the . Willamette 
Talley, with temperatures reaching over 100° T. for a, 4-day period, 
was responsible for excellent control of this insect, which wan un- 
usually numerous. 
COM- ION RED SPIDER ( letranychus tclarius L. ) 
Oregon. H, E. Morrison (July S): Only one hop yard in the vicinity of 
Corvallis, in the Willamette Valley, showed any evidence of hop red 
spider. 
CARROT 
CARROT RUST ELY ( Psila rosae E, ) 
Hew York. II. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (July l4): S e v e re infestation 
in celery was seen on a muck farm in Cayuga County, western New York. 
Very little injury wa.s seen in a nearby block of carrots on the same 
farm. 
Oregon. R. L. Post (May): Reared from carrot roots sent in fron Yillanook 
in May. (Det. by D. G. Hall.) 
ONIONS 
ONION THRIPS ( Thrips t abaci Lind.) 
Nov; York, N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (July 21 ): Severe damage is 
occurring in spots in ^ayne County, western Now York. Condition has 
grown steadily worse during the last 2 or 3 weeks, but recent rains 
have reduced the seriovisness of large populations. 
