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TRUCK-CROP I N S.E C T S 
VEGETABLE WEEVIL ( Listroderes obliquus Klug) 
South Carolina. N. Allen and H. N. Pollard (April 15 ) v The first 
injury caused "by larvae during the current season was observed 
on plant-bed tobacco plants on April 10. Since that time 
severe injury has been noted on a few plants in several beds 
in Florence Comity. A few injured plants were observed in a 
bed northeast of Mullins, Marion County, in the eastern part 
of the State, on April 15* 
Georgia. E. H. Frederic (April 15 ) ’• First noticed feeding on 
radish on April 7 at Thomasville in southern Georgia. Later 
found feeding and causing moderate damage on sweetpeas, straw- 
berries, and a wild host. 
Florida. J. R. Watson (April 23)1 The vegetable weevil has been 
sent in from Panama City, in Bay County, northern Florida* 
the most southern point .reported from Florida. It is also 
doing severe damage to turnips at Monticello in the northern 
part of the State. 
S. L. Lyons (April 9 ) : Bugs very destructive to plants 
at Jacksonville. (Dot. by W. H. Anderson.) 
F. S. Chamberlin (April 17) ; First found attacking 
tobacco in Gadsden County in northern Fla. in 1937» and since 
that time it has become a tobacco-plant— bed pest of some 
importance. During the last few seasons' all of the injury 
has been caused by the larvae, but now the adults have been 
found causing serious injury to newly set tobacco plants. 
In the two infested fields observed, the weevils had evidently 
migrated into the tobacco from outside areas, as the infesta- 
tions were confined to the outer rows. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (April 23 ): Reports of injury to cabbage 
received from Copiah County, in central part of State, to 
turnips in Holmes Comity, in central part of State, and light 
damage in the Meridian area in the eastern part of the State. 
SPOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabfotica duo de c impun c t at a F.) 
Virginia. L. V v Brannon (April 15 ) : First beetles observed feeding 
in a field of snap beans at Norfolk on April 15 , 3 days earlier 
than the first emergence last year. 
South Carolina. C. F. Rainwater (April 26) : Observed to be numerous 
in crimson clover and vetch that liadnot been turned under at 
St. Matthews, in Calhoun County, central part of State. 
Kansas, H. R. Bryson (April 24): The first beetles this spring 
were taken today at Manhattan, northeastern part of State. 
