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New York 
California 
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INSECTS Af IECTIHG GREENHOUSE AND 
ORNAMENTAL PLANTS AND LAWNS 
TARNISHED PLANT BUG- ( Lygus pratensis L.) 
M. P. Jones (August) J The tarnished plant "bug is quite a 
pest in Maine, 
H. L. Bailey (July 3l)j The tarnished plant bug is unusually 
abundant on potato plants,, An appreciable amount of damage has 
been caused by these bugs in sucking the juice from leaf petioles 
and new shoots, 
M. P. Jones (August) J The tarnished plant bug is quite a pest 
in New Hampshire, 
A. I. Bourne (August 21): The tarnished plant bug this season 
seems unusually abundant and has been attacking many different 
species of ornamentals rather severely. We have noted considerable 
numbers of this insect on gladiolus, and in some cases serious 
injury to the opening blossoms has taken place, 
N. Y. State Coll.. Agr,, Weekly News Letter (August) s Severe 
injury by the tarnished plant bug, particularly to potatoes, is 
reported from northern and western New York, (Abstract, J.A.H.) 
CALIFORNIA TORTOISE SHELL ( Aglais californica Bdv.) 
^E P A. McGregor (July 25) s While motoring July 25 through the 
Siskiyou Mountains of northern California the writer passed 
through a very dense migration of butterflies," The butterflies 
were first encountered not far north of Weed, and wo passed out 
of the migration not far south of Dunsmuir, the zone of flight 
being about 35 miles wide. The butterflies were traveling in 
a general westerly direction. Possibly 90 per cent of the 
individuals were not over 3 feet above the ground; very few were 
as high as the windshield of the car; an occasional individual 
flew as high as 10 feet. Roughly there appeared to be about 
one individual to each 100 feet of land surface. Upon inquiry 
the writer was told that July 25 was the fourth day of the 
migration, 
MEALY PLATA ( Ormenis pruinosa Say) 
A. P. Morse (August 3) : : This lantern~fly has been in evidence 
locally at Wellesley recently, showing quite an outbreak, but not 
apparently destructive, on a park planting of various shrubs 
including especially Indian currant (Symphoricarpos) , privet 
(Ligustrum), Rosa rugosa , etc. The white, floeculent, unsightly 
patches of downy young on the younger wood of .last year/rdeface 
the shrubs directly and by shedding on the leaves beneath. The 
adults have been noticeable for a week or more, perched head down- 
ward on infested branches, especially toward the tips, apparently 
