• • .. SQUASH 
SQUASH 3UGr ( Anas a tristis Deg# ) 
Mississippi, C. Lyle'(Moy 25) J Heavy infestations on suinner squash in Peo-rl 
River County, 
SQUASH BEETLE ( Epilachna horoalis P,) 
Louisiana, L# L, Hcveu (May 22): Ono spocincn collected on April 26 hut. not 
_ found on a host plant* • 
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AS?AR/iGUS , . 
ASP;lRAGUS BEETLES (Crioccris spp.) ■ 
How York* N, Y, State Coll, A^^r, Nows Letter (May 27): £. asparagi L, and C, 
duo do c i nrpunc t at a L,' a.ppc.arcd last week in destructive nuiihers" in quite a 
fev/ plantings in Colui.ihia and Schenectady Counties, in eastern Nqw York, 
First eggs soon on May 21 smd expected to hatch in the Hudson Valley this 
week. Control ncasures necessary in three fields of young aspara.(gus. Also 
present in v/estorn Sioffolk County, £, gs paragi and £*■ duodccimpunctata v;ere 
noted in nunhers during the last i^eok innaync County, in v/ostorn York, 
Pennsylvania, H, E. Hodgkiss (May 25) J £, asparagi reported as nore abundant 
than usuaJ* 
.South Ca.rolina, J, G. Ua.tts (May): Little increase of £, asparagi on asparagus 
at Blaclcvillo during May, Danago of little consequence* 
Illinois, ¥, P, ^lint (May 2l): £. asparagi reported as very abundant in north- 
ern Illinois, cspociaJly in large fields, 
.Utah, G. F, Enowlton (May I7)* Injury hy £, aspanagi is severe in parts of 
northern Davis and Uohor Counties, 
Ua.shington, R, D, Eichnann (April 29): £, asparagi was heconing quite prevalent 
in ,thc Prossor-Walla V/alla a,rea on April lb. Mating ohsorvod, and sone eggs 
found Qn small anparagus stalks, 
R, S, Lehman (May IS): Largo larvcuo of the first brood of £, aspa.ra.gi 
are doing considerable feeding on asparagus in the vicinity of ^alla ^alla* 
ASPARAGUS MIHER ( Agromyza. simplex Loew) 
Washington, R, D, Eichnann (April 29 )i Mating observed in the Pro.sser-Walla 
Walla "area. Flies numerous in a.ll raspara.(s^.s fields visited on April I6 and 
17. 
WATERCRESS 
WATERCFuSSS LEAF BEETLE ( Phaodon a.cruginosu5 Suffr,) 
Ma.ssachusetts, A, E, Stone (May 29): Severe outbrca.k reported from a greenhouse 
in Scekor-k, Crop x)ractically destroyed in one house and ba.dly dajna.god in an- 
other. 
