Oregon. D. C. Mote (May 19): Peak of migration into fields from • 
hibernation reached on May 8 in the Willamette Valley. A few taken 
in decreasing numbers* during the rest of the week. Control 
operations were begun prior to May 8 on canning peas and on May 15 
on Austrian winter field peas. 
Washington. L. G. Smith (May 23): Reported from Walla Walla County on 
May 15. Adults congregated on the border of a pea field near- Pixie 
and averaged 5 per sweep of net; field just coming into bloom. In 
Walla Walla and Columbia Counties the first eggs were noted on May 
9 on volunteer peas. A few found in the fields for some time but 
first large emergence in hibernation cages and first appearance in 
numbers in the fields occurred during the hot period of May 13-15* 
PEA APHID ( Macro siphum pisi Kltb.) 
Hew York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (May 22): Pea aphids 
found in Suffolk County on about 10 percent of pea plants, with 
an estimated population of about 20 aphids per 100 plants. In 
Nassau County they are slowly increasing in abundance but still 
relatively scarce • 
H. Glasgow (May 28): Pea aphid has been moving into peas 
for the last week or 10 days at Geneva. Much more abundant than 
at this time last year. 
Maryland, E. N, Cory (April 26): Reported as present in small numbers 
in pea fields near Cambridge. 
Gertrude Myers (May 26): Abundant on canning peas near Rock- 
ville, Montgomery County, Spraying being done. 
Virginia. H. G. Walker and L. D. Anderson (May 27): Early market 
garden peas in Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties uninjured. 
However, canning peas on the Eastern Shore of Virginia are heavily 
infested and peas are seriously damaged where proper control 
measures were not applied. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (May 18): Early garden peas attacked and injured 
in Valley County on May 11, 
Washington, L. G. Smith (May 23): Average of 50 or more taken "per 
sweep in a pea field near Dixie, Walla Walla County, on May 15. An 
abundance of syrphid fly larvae and eggs present, but very few 
ladybeetles. 
CABBAGE 
DIAMONBBACK MOTH ( Plutella maculipennis Curt . ) 
Utah. G. E. Knowlton (May 13): Moths abundant at Utah Hot Springs. 
Larvae and moths extremely abundant on white- top, a weed, at Silver 
City and Eureka. 
