at Valley Stream, Nassau County. Flies are also prevalent in 
Rockland County. • 
MELONS 
A WEEVIL (L epidocricus herrick i Pierce) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (April 12): Found on watermelon and cantaloups 
at' Chatom, in the southwestern part of the State, on April 12, 
ASPARAGUS 
ASPARAGUS BEETLE ( Crioceris asparagi L.) 
South Carolina. F. Sherman and W. C. Nettles (April 25)1 Unusually severe 
in southcentral section of the State in Ailcen, Allendale, Bamberg, 
Barnwell, Edgefield, and Saluda Counties, and north to Chesterfield 
County. 
Iowa. H. E. Jaques (April): Present in Davis County, in southeastern 
Iowa, 
Washington. L. G. Smith (April 22): The writer found many beetles still 
in hibernation beneath the bark of grape trunks in the Kennewick 
area of Benton County, in the southern part of the State, on March 28. 
Some were active and crawling around on the ground. Growers had 
just started cutting asparagus. 
R. S. Lehman (April 19): Extensive damage to young asparagus 
plants in Walla Walla. 
SPINACH 
GREEN PEACH APHID ( Myzus persicae Sulz.) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker and L. D. Anderson (April 25): Spinach aphids 
were very scarce in most spinach fields in the Norfolk area, in the 
southeastern part of the State, but rather abundant in a few fields 
in the Western Branch area, in the southwestern part of the State, 
SWEETPQTATO 
SWEETPOTATO FLEA BEETLE ( Chae to enema conf inis Crotch) 
Mississippi. J. E. Lee (April 25): Light infestation reported from 
Lamar County in the southeastern pant of the State. 
STRAWBERRY 
WEEVILS ( Curculionidae) 
Washington. L. G. Smith (March 26): Severe damage to strawberries by the 
strawberry root weevil on a farm at Selah, in the southern part of 
the State, was reported on March 26, The weevils were more abundant 
then at the same date last year, from 5 to 10 larvae being found in 
many hills. 
