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ASIATIC GARDEN BEETLE 
No general e co-uting ha? "been carried on this year- to determine the spread 
and abundance nf the Asiatic garden beetle, but observations during the active 
season in July and August indicate a more or less general increase in numbers 
this year in Connecticut, on Long Island, and in infested portions of northern 
New Jersey, This is the first tine in several years that this upward trend has 
been noted. In the infested areas- in eastern Pennsylvania and in west-central 
New 'Jersey beetles were fully as- abundant this year ns last. 
The Japanese weevil ( C air nyc t erus setarius Eoelofs) first recorded from 
the United States in New York in 1929 , was recorded from Connecticut in 1932, from 
'Pennsylvania .and Maryland in 1935. end '"a? found in. Massachusetts for the first 
tine in 1933, During the season of 1938, this weevil was also reported from 
Connecticut, Maryland, and Pennsylvania* 
Dialeurodes chittendeni Lain?: was reported from Connecticut for the first 
time in 1933. It was abundant in a planting of rhododendron at Greenwich. It was 
also found during the season in Los Angeles County, Calif, , on mountain laurel 
which had originated in Tennessee. The insect had previously been recorded from 
New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Washington, 
ROSE MIDGE 
During the last 2 or 3 years, the rose midge, known chiefly as a serious 
pest of greenhouse roses since lCc6, has suddenly appeared as a serious, threat 
to garden roses. Its occurrence on out-of-door roses has been rare and unusual, 
the earliest record in this country being that by Dr. G. C. Hewitt in a garden 
at London, Ontario (Don. Ent. Rept. 1915, P« 33)* Apparently the first record of 
its occurrence on garden roses in the United States was in 1916 , reported by 
C. R, Crosby -and M. D. Leonard, and published in the Eirst American Rose Annual 
for 1916 . Ho further references appeared in literature* from that time until 
1935 . when this pest was reported a*s injuring garden roses in a number of 
localities, viz,, Grand Rapids, Mich,; Elyria, Ohio; Oliftnn Springs, Buffalo, 
and Long Island, N, Y.; Indianapolis, Ind. (July 1937); and Roanoke, Va, (1937)* 
Some of these reports indicated that the infestations were of 2 or 3 .years’ 
standing. During the summer of 1933, an infestation at Woodridge, D, 0. , was dis- 
covered. Information received from members of the American Rose Society indicated 
that serious trouble was experienced during the past season in localities where 
it has become established. The indications ore that this insect is on the 
ascendency and may become a real menace to the successful growing of garden roses. 
On garden roses the midge causes the same type of injury ar it does- on roses 
grown under glass. The ne- shoots, including the flower end loaf buds are 
attacked as soon ?*? they develop. Such new growth becomes distorted and later 
turns brown and dies. As a result, no flowers are produced on infested plants. 
The first crop of flowers nay escape attack but thereafter, i.e., from the middle 
of July and extending throughout the season until frost, the injury continues. 
All kinds of roses are subject to attack. (C. A. Vp.igel, Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
