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The grape leaf hopper was very seriously abundant throughout the 
northern part of the Sail Joaquin Valley in California where it is said 
that they will materially reduce the marketable tonnage of gropes. 
The Pacific red spider was extremely numerous late in July on grapes, 
deciduous fruits, and ornamentals in central California, .Early in August 
this-insect was practically eliminated by the predacious thrips Scolothrips 
sexmaculatus Perg, 
An unusual damage to citrus is reported from Los Angeles, Calif. 
The false chinch bug is serio\:.c:ly damaging young trees in groves adjoining?* 
wheat, and weed fields. 
The second finding of Gan&in's whitefly ( Alemrodicus |Me t al euro di cu s ) 
cardini Back) in the United States is reported in this number of the Insect 
Pest Survey Bulletin. Specimens were collected on guava in moderate 
abundance at West Palm Beach, Tla. The first finding was .in February, 1921, 
when specimens were collected by W.. B. Food, of the Plant Quarantine and 
.Control Administration, in the Plant Introduction Gardens at Miami. 
Blister beetles were quite prevalent throughout the entire Mississippi 
Valley from Indiana, Minnesota, and Uorth Dakota southward to Louisiana 
and Mississippi. 
The plant bug Engytatus geniculatus Reut. was recorded for the first 
time as a pest of tomatoes in Orange County, Calif. This insect is said 
to be injurious to tomatoes in the Hawaiian Islands, 
Late in July the Mexican bean beetle was found at Brattleboro, this 
being the first record for the State of Vermont. This insect is extremely 
prevalent and destructive throughout the northern part of its range, partic- 
ularly north of the drought area of 1930. 
Two coreid bugs, Alydus eurinus Say and A. ■pilosulus H. S., were found 
seriously injuring beans in Georgia, 
During the last week of August the sugar-beet webworm developed in 
rather large numbers in parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Utah, 
Many fields of peppers in southern California have been damaged from 
25 to 40 per cent by the pepper weevil. 
The weevil Trie hal ophus ' di dymus Lee, has been found infesting strawberry 
crowns on the mainland at Tacoma, Wash, Heretofore, this insect has only 
been known from Whitley Island, Washington, 
Por the first time in many years the potato tuber moth was injurious 
to tobacco in Dane, Rock, and Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin, 
The bagworm was quite generally reported from Pennsylvania westward 
to Indiana and Kansas, and southward to Mississippi, 
