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Washington, L. G. Smith (July ll): Spots of damage noted in several fields of 
canning peas in the Blue Mountain district of Columbia and Walla Walla 
Counties on July 10* Damage light. Severe infestations beginning as 
canning peas were coming into "bloom on June 27 at Montesano, in Grays 
Harbor County. In Clark County severe injury already done to pod peas, 
with a low population on June 
C. B. Whitinger (July 19 ) : Attacking canning peas around Mount Vernon. 
Damage probably generally greater in this county than a year ago. 
L. G. Smith (July 15); Aphids have done severe injury to canning peas 
in Grays Harbor County. It is estimated that the yield has been reduced 
at least 5 0 percent. 
PEA WEEVIL ( Bruchus pisorum L. ) 
Michigan. R, Hutson (July 25); Reported as infesting garden peas at Lansing, 
Howell, Monroe, Jackson, Owosso, and Kalamazoo. 
Idaho. T. A. Brindley (July ll); Little damage to first peas processed on June 
30 from peas grown in the Palouse area of Idaho and Washington. (July 18); 
Weevils beginning to die off on July 15 at Moscow. 
Utah, G. E, Knowlton (July 7 ); Damaging peas at Butlerville and Sandy. 
Washington. L, G. Smith (June 27); Adults and eggs '.'found on pod peas in Thurs- 
ton County. (July 5 ); On June 26 in the Willapa Valley, Pierce County, 
green pod peas had from 1 to 4 pea weevils in each pod. Pods were just 
filling and peas still in bloom. (July ll); Severe damage to pod peas 
in Clark County, on June 30. Prom 4 to 6 eggs found on every pod. Some 
eggs hatched, and larvae were in seeds. 
CABBAGE • • 
APHIDS (Aphiidae) 
Hew York. H. Y. State Coll. Agr. Hews Letter (July 24); Cabbage aphids generally! 
abundant on up-State field cabbage and qu.ite noticeable in Ontario, Monroe,!: 1 
and Orleans Counties, western Hew York. 
Washington. L, G. Smith (July 5 ); Cabbage aphids just starting on tips of 
cabbage seed stalks in the Willapa Valley, Pacific County. Ladybeetles 
and syrphus flies abundant. (July ll); Colonics just becoming established 
on tips of seed cabbage stalks in Grays Harbor County. Growth too'far acU j 
vanced for aphids to do much damage. 
HARLEQUIH BUG ( Murgantia histrionica Hahn) 
South Carolina, E. Sherman (July 22); Reported as more destructive than usual 
in the western part of the State, 
Mississippi, C, Lyle (July 24); Causing injury to a garden in Covington County 
on June 19. Reported from Marshall County and from the east— central couni , 
