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POTATO 
FOTATO APHID ( Macro siphun solanifolii Ashn, ) 
Florida. M. D. Leonard (February 27 ) • Observations in no,ny potato fields in 
the South-Miani to #onestead section (about 7»000 acres) 'during the past 
week showed a no derate general infestation. On tonatoes (a considerably 
larger acreage) it is reported that infestation occurred earlier this 
season than usual — starting, I believe, in January — but was greatly redtic 
by. unseasoned rains about 2 or 3 weeks o.go. Infestation increasing gen- 
erally last week, with noderate to fairly heavily infested fields in some 
sections. Ladybird beetles, including Ceratonegilla fuscilabris Muls. 
and Cyclone da sanguinea L. , fairly common on infested. plants, 
BEANS 
POTATO LEAFHOPPEH ( Enpoasca fabae Harr.) 
Florida., M. D. Leonard (February 27 ) S Reported that in the big bean section 
along the Fast Shore of Lake Okeechobee a considerable infestation had 
developed for a couple of weeks .just prior to heavy rains, which occurred 
around the tenth. General light to nodcrately heavy infestation in a 
nunber of beanfields, in the South- Miami-to-Homestead area, although the 
latter type of infestation was observed by me personally only in a large 
planting of pole linas which haro grown over head-high. 
BEAN APHID ( Aphis runic is L t ) 
Florida, M. D, Leonard (February 2j): Several large bean plantings observed i 
the Honestead-Hedlands section, with light to moderate infestations durina 
the last week. .1 understand that a nunber of plantings were infested more 
or less prior to recent heavy rains, which greatly reduced the infestatior 
In several of the latter plantings nearly all of the aphids had been 
killed by fungi. 
PEAS 
PEA APHID ( Macro siphum pisi Kltb.) 
Georgia. P, M, Gilmer (February ll): Heavy aphid infestation reported on 
Austrian field peas at Adel. (Tentatively identified.) 
Louisiana. C, 0. Eddy (February 22) J The pea aphid is rare. 
Oregon, K. Gray (February 24) i More abundant than usual on fall-sown legumes 
in the Willamette Valley, owing to ideal weather conditions. 
