MELONS 
STRIPED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica vittata E.) 
New York. N, Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (May 15) : Pound, near a 
vegetable garden in western part of Suffolk County on May 9» 
Numerous beetles observed since then in the orchard while jarring 
for curculios. 
Ohio. N. E. Howard (May 23): Very numerous in the Scioto bottoms, 
near Chillicothe, feeding on the cotyledons of wild cucumber. Very 
numerous and injurious to cucurbits at South Point, some plantings 
not treated immediately being destroyed as the plants pushed through 
the ground. 
Georgia. J. E. Webb, Jr. (May 20): Damage to squash and cucumbers 
severe where noted at Cornelia. 
A LEAF MINER (Agromyzidae) 
South Carolina. J. G. Watts (May 10): Large numbers of a small fly, 
presumably an agromyzid, reared from cotyledons of small cantaloup 
plants at Blackville. Between 95 and 100 percent of the cotyledons 
estimated as attacked. Cucumbers and watermelons less extensively 
attacked. 
ASPARAGUS 
ASPARAGUS BEETLE ( Crioceris asparagi L.) 
South Carolina. J. G. Watts (May 22): More than normal numbers of 
adult convergent ladybeetles ( Hippodamia convergens Guer.) observed 
at Blackville consuming large numbers of asparagus beetle eggs. 
Apparently responsible for keeping this insect in check in one 
small field of asparagus for 2 or 3 weeks. 
D. Dunavan (May 22): Taken at Clemson, first record for this 
part of the State. 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (May 2): Beetles common on some patches of 
asparagus at Milner. 
Michigan. R. Hutson (May 24) : Asparagus beetles very numerous around 
Mason and Williamston. 
Utah. G. E. Knowlton (May 20): Observed since May 3 damaging asparagus 
shoots generally throughout Weber County and in northern Davis 
County. Numorous larvae of all sizes presont now in northern Utah 
localities. 
