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The establishment of- a considerable colony of Bruchus "brachial is Pahraeus 
attacking vetch in the field near Haddon Heights, K. J., and infested material 
from Delaware and Maryland was discovered during the month. 
The peak of lst-brood codling moth emergence in the Hudson River Valley oc- 
curred about July 7. The second -brood moths started to emerge in central Ohio ' 
about July 9, but up to July 20 no emergence had been observed in the fruit 
belt along Lake Erie. Severe infestations were reported quite, generally in the 
eastern part of the United States. Band counts in western Illinois indicate 
that the population is 10 times as great as at the same time last year, and in 
eastern Illinois about; 25 times as great. 
Considerable damage is being done by the grape leafhopper from New Jersey 
westward to Ohio. 
Blister beetles as usual are now attracting a great deal of attention on a 
variety' of crops in' the-East-'.Gsntral and West-Sent ral States, Say's blister bee- 
tle becoming quite numerous in New England and in. New York. 
The false chinch bugs are very numerous over a large area in Iowa and Ne- 
braska.. They are; also numerous in parts of Texas, Colorado* and South Carolina. 
Colorado potato beetlesrcre discovered on a city lot in Ogden, Utah, during 
late June. By the end of July it appeared that this infestation had been elimi- 
nated. ■■'.••' -.;-" ■••.-.. 
Thepotato leafhopper with - the associated hop-oerburn is prevalent in the East- 
Central States, southward to Kentucky and westward to Iowa and Minnesota. 
Larvae of the Mexican bean beetle were collected during the month in Wash- 
ington County, Rhode Island. Considerable damage was done by the first genera- 
tion of this insect in. Connecticut. . It was reported for .the first time from 
Esopus and Port Ewen, New York.. in .the -older infested region in the southern 
Middle Atlantic States but comparatively little damage is being done by this in- 
sect. 
The squash bug is being reported much more frequently than last year from 
the Middle Atlantic States, southward to Georgia, Alabama ,'and"' Mississippi. It 
was also^ reported as doing serious damage in Iowa and Utah.' In Idaho,' where - 
it was first discovered in 1929, it is now quite generally destructive over -the 
southwestern part of the State.. 
A serious outbreak of the beet webworm is occurring in parts of Wyoming-." •'- 
The insect is also unusually abundant in Montana, and North' Dakota. In Wyoming 
the insect seriously damaged beans into which they migrated from near-by fields. 
The elm leaf, beetle, reported as occurring in southern New England in the 
last number of the Insect Pest Survey Bulletin, was reported during July from' 
New Hampshire southward along the Atlantic Coast to Maryland with occasional' 
outbreaks in Ohio .and Kentucky. 
