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Ohio. I. H«. Parks (July 24): Striped cucumber 'beetles very abundant 
generally this summer and have caused cucumber and melon growers' a great 
deal of trouble* Still abundant in blossoms, and bacterial wilt disease 
is beginning to appear* * ' ■ 
E. W. Mendenhall (July 25) : D. duodecimpunctata is- Pausing a good 
deal of damage to cucumber vines in Franklin County. 
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Michigan, M. D. Leonard (July l4): D, vittata reported as doing considerable 
damage to several kinds of garden flowers in a garden at*- Detroit*- 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (July 30): Striped cucumber beetle very abundant 
in gardens of southern Wisconsin, infesting principally 1 cucumbers, melons, 
and squash, , 
Missouri. L, Haseman (July 23) 5 Fewer complaints than usual received on 
striped and spotted cucumber beetles, but larvae of the < latter began to 
show up on- July 22 in bottom corn in southeastern Missouri. Fewer 
.beetles than usual throughout central Missouri. 
Iowa. H. E. Jaques (July): D, vittata reported as scattered throughout the 
State, v 
Nebraska, H. D. Tate (July 17)* Striped cucumber beetle attacking cucumber 
plants in Phelps County on July 3 and in Saline and Lancaster Counties 
■ on July 9* . :;;v 
California, A. E. Michelbacher (July 23): D. soror Lee. caused some 
localized damage to fruit at Brentwood. Large populations ’encountered 
in some orchards. As many as 1,-250 collected from a single tree, and 
in a few orchards the average number per tree ranged between 4-00 and 500. 
R. E. Campbell. (July 24): Heavy infestation of D. trivittata 
Mann, and D. soror reported as having caused widespread injury to melons, 
vinos, and vine roots during June in the Imperial Valley, 
A SCARABAEID ( Pleurophorus ventralis Horn) • ! 
Alabama. J. M» Robinson (July l6): Reported on peas and peanuts at Clayton 
on July 9. • *■ ■ ' 
CARROT BEETLE ( Ligyrus gibbosus Deg. ) 
Indiana, J. J. Davis (July 26): Reported as attacking sweet sultan roots at 
Mulberry, central Indiana, on ’June- 29, . 
South Dakota. H. 0. Severin (July 26): Flights are very heavy over most of 
the. State at the present time,' 
Nebraska, H. D. Tate (July 17 ): Attacking carrot- and parsnip plants -and 
marigolds in Adams County on June 19, 
