ASPARAGUS 
ASPARAGUS BEETLE ( Grioceris asparagi L.) 
South Carolina. J. G. Watts (August): Noticeably less abundant than usual at 
Blackville, 
Ohio. E. W, Mendenhall (August 15): Considerable damage to asparagus in Clark 
County, 
Minnesota. H. Milliron (August IS): C. duodecinpunctata L. not very abundant on 
asparagus at Saint Anthony Park. 
Utah. G. E. Knowlton (August l4): Adults abundant and mating at Marriott, Earn- 
ington, Syracuse, and Sunset. Slugs and some eggs present, and moderate 
injury to many plants. 
Washington. P. D. Eichman (August 22): Light damage to asparagus in Prosser and 
Walla Walla. Many adults found on the plants, eggs abundant, but few larva 
present. Control measures generally used. 
CELERY 
GREENHOUSE LEAF TIER ( Phlyc taenia rub i gal is Guen. ) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (August 2S): Some injury to celery at Eulton, north- 
central Indiana. 
EGGPLANT 
POTATO S TALK BORlR ( Tr ichobaris trinotata Say) 
Ohio. N. E. Howard (August 7): Specimens found in eggplant at South Point. It 
destroyed most of the plants in one planting of £ or 1/3 acre and has 
accounted for the loss of plants in some other plantings. (Det. by L. L. 
Buchanan, ) Trias pis curculionis Pitch, a braconid, was collected on this 
weevil on August 1. (Det. by C. E. W. Muesebeck. ) 
ONIONS - 
ONION THRIPS ( Thrips tabaci Lind. ) 
Connecticut. N. Turner (August 22): As onions were killed, migrating thrips fed 
heavily on cabbage and cauliflower plants. Some damage/ 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (August 7): In. eastern New York on 
ong s land and in Orange County thrips have been quite injurious to onions 
ut are now decreasing. (August l4) : Infestations very heavy in Genesee 
County on maturing onions. 
South Dakota. H. C. Severin (August 12): Especially abundant in the Black Hills 
territory and considerable damage caused. 
