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BUD SPIDSRS 
Washington,!* G, Smith (May 8): Adults found attacking strawhcrries, with 
moder.ate to severe damage, on May 2 on the grounds of the Western Wa.shing- 
ton Experiment Station at Puyallup. Hop yards in the Yakima vicinity were 
visited on March 18 to determine where the mites were overwintering, A 
few were found in scan's and crevices of old vines, hut most of them were 
feeding on this year's growth of plantain and dock in and arotind edges of 
the field, 
Oregon, H, E, Morrison (May l6): Mults and eggs of T, tolarius L, v/crc found 
to he a-hundant on stravrherries ak Corvallis, 
SUGAP BEETS 
SUGilR-BEET ROOT MGGOT ( Euryccphalomyia myopaefornis Roeder) 
Idako, J, R, Douglass (Maj;- 21 ): Adults nov; connon in the Rupert-Paul area., 
TOBACCO 
TOBACCO ELEA BEETLE ( Epitrix parvula E. ) 
"Virginia, S, B, Eenne (May 18); Causing considerable injury to tobacco in 
plant heds, where they were not properly constructed, in ea.stern Virginia, 
Quite plentiful during the first v;eek of Ma^y, 
Elorida., E. S. Chanherlin (May b); UnusuaAly scance on nev/ly set tohanco plant 
in the Quincy a.roa., 
Ohio, T, H, Parks (May 3l)» Reported today as seriously injuring young tohacce 
plants in plant hods in Brov/n County, southwestern Ohio, 
Tennessee, L. B. Scott (Hay 23 ) i Ap]?earcd in only an occasional tobacco plant 
bed in north~ccntral Tennessee, Abundance less than normal, and damage of 
little consequence, 
A DIPTEROH (Exec hia sp.) 
Many land. E, E, Cory (May lO): Reported on toba.cco seedbeds a-t La Plata, 
GARDEE SPRIEGTAIL ( Bourletiella.. hortensis Pitch) ■ 
Massaxhusetts, A, W, Morrill, Jr, (May 2l): One infestation at '^'^cstfield v/as 
more severe than ever seen before by the reporter, 
Connecticut, A, W. Morrill, Jr, (May 21 ); A few gi'owers have complained about 
damage, 
HOPS 
HOP PESTS (Coleoptcra) 
Oregon, H, E. Morrison (May 12): A ilL-a,cre hop yard ab Salem reported as bein^ 
infested by Prionus c alif ornicus Mots, and Poljrphylla decemlineata Say, 
about 75 perc^ent of tlao plants’~Kaving their roots ab tanked by the larvae. 
Plants eventually killed. 
