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western New York, the damage having been particularly noticeable 
during the second week in July. 
M. H. Swenk (July l): In Hall and Buffalo Counties the tarnish- 
ed plant bug was reported as very plentiful on potato plants, and 
doing damage June 18 to 22, 
C. Wokeland (June 30): Injury from the tarnished plant "bug is 
more prevalent in pota,to vines than we ho.ve ever noticed it before. 
Injury takes the form of wilted terminals and blossoms which later 
turn black, 
POTATO TUBER WORM ( Phthorimaoa operculella Zell.) 
J. R. Watson (July 24): This insect was sent in from Port Myers, 
where it was doing considerable damage to potatoes in storage, 
E. W. Berger and G. B. Merrill (July 23): The potato tuber 
moth is very abundant on potatoes in storage at Kissimee and Lake 
Worth, 
TOMATO WORM ( Protonarce sexta. Johan.) 
N. J. State Coll. Agr,, Weekly News Letter (July): Green 
tomatoc*" worm outbreaks are being reported from Cumberland and 
Camden Counties, 
E. N. Cory and assistants (July 17): The tomato hornworm has 
been extremely injurious in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Caroline, 
Kent, and Dorchester Counties, One field of 75 a-cres in Caroline 
County had as high as 15 worms per plant and a la.rge portion of 
the early fruit was destroyed. One field in Dorchester Comity 
had four acres of early tomatoes so heavily infested that they 
had to be ploughed down, 
J. J. Davis (July 25): Tomato worms reported very destructive 
to tomato-,- 3 throughout the State, 
TOMATO STILT BUG ( Jalysus spinosus Say) 
L. B. Reed (July 16):: The toma.to stilt bug was found on this 
date causing serious damage to tomatoes in one ga.rden. Almost 
the entire crop was being destroyed, 
TOMATO PSYLLID ( Paratrioza cockerelli Sulz.) 
C. P. Gillette (July 22): The tomato psyllid is moderately 
abundant in the Greeley area, causing considerable damage to 
potatoes in some fields. 
